Lawyers to move bail plea, Congress to protest across Assam- The New Indian Express

By IANS

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

Mevani’s advocate Angshuman Bora stated that he, accompanied by different attorneys, 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 stage a sit-in in opposition to the arrest of Mevani, who had earlier pledged outdoors assist to the social gathering, in all 34 districts of the state on Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would go to Assam to kick-start a slew of initiatives.

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

Earlier, quickly after the CJM’s court docket in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday, six days after he was arrested by Assam police from his residence state in Gujarat in reference to an “objectionable” tweet in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he was re-arrested by the Assam police on completely different fees, together with “outraging the modesty of a woman police officer”.

The Gujarat legislator was arrested following a criticism filed by an Assam BJP chief looking for motion in opposition to him beneath the IT Act.