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  • Jignesh Mevani completes prison formalities in Kokrajhar, to depart for Gujarat 

    Via PTI

    KOKRAJHAR: Gujarat’s Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani, on Saturday finished pending bail formalities on the Kokrajhar Court docket and is slated to go back to his house state after travelling to Guwahati, the place he’s going to be assembly Congress leaders who supported calls for that he be launched.

    Mevani, an unbiased MLA from Gujarat, advised journalists right here after finishing the formalities that it was once “shameful that false circumstances have been filed” in opposition to him within the land of Srimanta Sankardeva, a respected Vaishnavite saint.

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    Mevani was once granted bail by means of the Kokrajhar courtroom previous on Monday in a case associated with a tweet on Top Minister Narendra Modi however was once rearrested in an instant afterwards and brought to Barpeta in keeping with allegations by means of a girl police officer that he assaulted and molested her whilst he was once being escorted by means of a police posse.

    After being given bail by means of the Barpeta district pass judgement on on Friday, who pulled up Assam police for registering a “false FIR” within the alleged attack case, Mewani got here to Kokrajhar previous this morning to finish the unique bail fromalities.

    He additionally took the permission of the courtroom to depart the city, as certainly one of his bail prerequisites was once to stick inside the limits of the courtroom’s jurisdiction.

    “All of the procedures associated with the Kokrajhar bail order has been finished and Mevani will cross to Guwahati earlier than leaving for Gujarat,” his legal professional stated.

    “It was once completely a conspiracy to annoy me and to make use of a girl reputable for the aim (which) displays their cowardice and is in opposition to the tradition of the state,” Mewani stated.

    Alleging that the BJP management was once in the back of his arrest, he requested, “Why will the Assam police abruptly arrest me, check in circumstances, ask for remand, vehemently oppose the bail software?” “It’s because they have directions from their political bosses’, the Dalit chief alleged.

  • 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.