Patidar quota stir: HC eliminates Hardik’s bail situation of no longer getting into Mehsana got rid of for a yr

Through PTI

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Top Court docket on Friday granted aid to Bharatiya Janata Birthday party chief Hardik Patel through putting off for a yr a bail situation prohibiting him from getting into the state’s Mehsana district in a rioting case attached with the 2015 Patidar quota stir.

The court docket of Justice SH Vora granted brief aid to Patel, who had filed the bail amendment petition on November 7 at the flooring that he sought after to provide prayers on the temple of his “kuldevi” (native deity).

The bail situation that he’s going to no longer input his house district Mehsana has been got rid of for a yr, Patel’s attorney Rafik Lokhandwala mentioned.

Patel was once on Thursday declared because the BJP’s candidate for Viramgam seat in Ahmedabad district.

A Gujarat court docket had, in July 2018, sentenced Patel and his aides Lalji Patel and AK Patel to 2 years in prison for rioting and arson that came about on July 23, 2015 in Visnagar the city all the way through the Patidar reservation agitation.

On that day, a mob had torched a automobile and vandalised the place of business of Visnagar BJP MLA Rishikesh Patel.

The Gujarat Top Court docket had, in August 2018, suspended the decrease court docket’s order and granted him bail.

The HC barred him from getting into Mehsana as a bail situation and this persevered at the same time as his enchantment in opposition to conviction stays pending earlier than the court docket.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Top Court docket on Friday granted aid to Bharatiya Janata Birthday party chief Hardik Patel through putting off for a yr a bail situation prohibiting him from getting into the state’s Mehsana district in a rioting case attached with the 2015 Patidar quota stir.

The court docket of Justice SH Vora granted brief aid to Patel, who had filed the bail amendment petition on November 7 at the flooring that he sought after to provide prayers on the temple of his “kuldevi” (native deity).

The bail situation that he’s going to no longer input his house district Mehsana has been got rid of for a yr, Patel’s attorney Rafik Lokhandwala mentioned.

Patel was once on Thursday declared because the BJP’s candidate for Viramgam seat in Ahmedabad district.

A Gujarat court docket had, in July 2018, sentenced Patel and his aides Lalji Patel and AK Patel to 2 years in prison for rioting and arson that came about on July 23, 2015 in Visnagar the city all the way through the Patidar reservation agitation.

On that day, a mob had torched a automobile and vandalised the place of business of Visnagar BJP MLA Rishikesh Patel.

The Gujarat Top Court docket had, in August 2018, suspended the decrease court docket’s order and granted him bail.

The HC barred him from getting into Mehsana as a bail situation and this persevered at the same time as his enchantment in opposition to conviction stays pending earlier than the court docket.