Jignesh Mevani’s arrest: Lawyers to maneuver bail plea, Congress to protest throughout Assam

By IANS

GUWAHATI: The legal professionals of Independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, who’s now below five-day police custody in Assams Barpeta district, stated on Wednesday that they’d transfer the classes court docket on Thursday searching for bail for the Dalit activist.

Mevani’s advocate Angshuman Bora stated that he, accompanied by different legal professionals, would transfer the district classes court docket on Thursday with a bail plea.

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Meanwhile, Congress leaders on Wednesday introduced to stage a sit-in in opposition to the arrest of Mevani, who had earlier pledged exterior assist to the get together, in all 34 districts of the state on Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would go to Assam to kick-start a slew of initiatives.

On Tuesday, Mevani was despatched to five-day police custody after his bail petition was rejected by Barpeta’s Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM).

Earlier, quickly after the CJM’s court docket in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday, six days after he was arrested by Assam police from his house state in Gujarat in reference to an “objectionable” tweet in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he was re-arrested by the Assam police on totally different costs, together with “outraging the modesty of a lady police officer”.

The Gujarat legislator was arrested following a criticism filed by an Assam BJP chief searching for motion in opposition to him below the IT Act.