Arrested over a tweet, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani will get bail 

By Online Desk

A courtroom in Assam’s Kokrajhar on Monday granted bail to Gujarat unbiased MLA Jignesh Mevani.

The legislator was arrested on April 20 for an alleged defamatory tweet in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, after which he was produced earlier than the courtroom late within the night. The courtroom despatched him to in the future’s judicial custody.

Mevani, an Independent MLA supported by the Congress, was apprehended from Palanpur city in Gujarat by a workforce of Assam police on the night time of April 20 after a First Information Report (FIR) below varied sections of the IPC and the IT Act was filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet in opposition to the prime minister.

According to the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi “considered Godse as God”.

Mevani was flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning after which taken to Kokrajhar by highway, the place he was produced on the chief judicial Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, which remanded him to a few days’ police custody.

An FIR was registered in opposition to him after a grievance was filed by an Assam BJP chief, Arup Kumar Dey.