Guwahati: Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani’s counsel stated a bail petition will probably be filed at Barpeta district session court docket on Thursday even because the Congress in Assam stated they may protest towards his arrest in all districts throughout PM Narendra Modi’s daylong go to to the state.
Mevani is in Barpeta police custody after his re-arrest on fees of allegedly assaulting a girl police officer on April 21 when he was introduced from Guwahati airport to Kokrajhar in case associated to an “objectionable” tweet towards Modi.
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) in its order has requested all its district items to stage sit-in strike towards the “unlawful & forcible arrest of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and lift robust voice for curbing our elementary rights to freedom of speech and expression.”
Modi will fly from New Delhi to Dimapur on Thursday morning from the place he'll take a chopper experience to Diphu in Assam’s Karbi Anglong to put basis stones of greater than 2,950 Amrit Sarovar initiatives and in addition deal with a public rally.
Later within the afternoon, in addition to addressing a public rally, he'll inaugurate seven most cancers care hospitals and lay basis stones for an additional seven below a joint initiative of Assam authorities and The Tata Belief, which is able to type South Asia’s single-largest inexpensive most cancers care community.
Mevani was first arrested by the Assam Police at Palanpur in Banaskantha district of his house state on April 20 from the place he was dropped at Assam.
He has already spent three days in police custody and in the future in judicial custody in his earlier case associated to the tweet in Kokrajhar district.
He was granted bail within the first case on April 25 however was rearrested by Barpeta police.
Mevani was flown to Guwahati from the place he was taken to Kokrajhar by highway, masking some 200 km. The Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace's court docket in Kokrajhar district on Thursday rejected the bail petition of the MLA and Dalit activist and despatched him to three-day police custody.
On Sunday after listening to his bail petition, the court docket reserved its order and despatched him to one-day judicial custody and requested the police to provide Mevani once more within the court docket on Monday.