Besides, the two union ministers of state, Kisanganj Congress Lok Sabha member Maulana Asrarul Haque also surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Manoj Kumar Sinha.
The court freed them on a surety of Rs 5000 each.
They were booked for stopping trains and a road blockade on NH31 during an agitation for early allocation of land for setting up of an AMU campus.
More than half-a-dozen legislators from West Bengal were among them.
Among others who surrendered and were released included Congress MLA Tauseef Alam and rebel RJD MLA Akhtar-ul Iman.
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