jignesh mevani: Assam cops arrest Jignesh Mevani from Gujarat; sent to 3-day police custody

Unbiased Dalit MLA from Vadgam, Jignesh Mevani, was arrested by the Assam Police from Banaskantha district late Wednesday evening following a criticism over two tweets ‘towards PM Modi’. He was remanded to three-day police custody on Thursday. Though the police sought 14-day custody, the court docket of the chief judicial Justice of the Peace of Kokrajhar remanded Mevani for 3 days.

An FIR was filed towards Mevani in Kokrajhar in Assam by one Arup Kumar Dey for 2 of his tweets that he had posted on April 17 forward of Modi’s go to to Gujarat. In his criticism, Dey had written that Mevani has talked about in his tweets “that the Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi worships and considers ‘Godse’ as God and appealed that the PM on his go to on April 20 to Gujarat ought to make an enchantment to the general public for the peace and concord in areas similar to Himmat Nagar, Khambhat and Beraval (sic.) in Gujarat (Sic.) the place communal violence (Komi Hadse) had taken place.”

“The circulation of the tweet revealed in Twitter has brought on widespread criticism and has the propensity to disturb public tranquillity, prejudicial to the upkeep of concord amongst a sure part of individuals. It’s extra prone to incite a piece of the lots belonging to a sure neighborhood to commit any offence towards the opposite neighborhood and has the tendency to destroy the social cloth of various communities on this a part of the nation,” he added.

Whereas Mevani has been taken to Kokrajhar in Assam, his lawyer Anand Yagnik advised ET that the authorized crew of the Congress has already reached the police station the place he’s being saved. His bail plea was nonetheless rejected. Mevani will problem the choice in a better court docket.