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  • Jignesh Mevani’s arrest: Legal professionals to transport bail plea, Congress to protest throughout Assam

    By way of IANS

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

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

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    In the meantime, Congress leaders on Wednesday introduced to degree a sit-in towards the arrest of Mevani, who had previous pledged out of doors strengthen to the birthday celebration, in all 34 districts of the state on Thursday, when High Minister Narendra Modi would seek advice from Assam to kick-start a slew of tasks.

    On Tuesday, Mevani was once despatched to five-day police custody after his bail petition was once rejected through Barpeta’s Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM).

    Previous, quickly after the CJM’s court docket in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday, six days after he was once arrested through Assam police from his house state in Gujarat in reference to an “objectionable” tweet towards High Minister Narendra Modi, he was once re-arrested through the Assam police on other fees, together with “outraging the modesty of a woman police officer”.

    The Gujarat legislator was once arrested following a grievance filed through an Assam BJP chief in search of motion towards him beneath the IT Act.