Court sends Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani to one-day judicial custody; will hear bail on Monday 

By PTI

KOKRAJHAR: An area court docket right here on Sunday despatched Gujarat Independent legislator Jignesh Mevani, arrested from the western state by Assam Police on Wednesday for a purported Tweet towards the prime minister, to one-day judicial custody, a police official stated.

The listening to in his case, together with his bail petition, will likely be taken up on Monday, he added.

Additional superintendent of police of Kokrajhar Surjit Singh Panesar advised reporters right here that the court docket of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) determined to remand him to in the future of judicial custody.

Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, after which he was produced earlier than the court docket late within the night.

Panesar additionally stated Mevani will likely be produced once more on the court docket on Monday morning and his listening to will proceed, together with on his bail petition.

Mevani, seen with an Assamese gamocha (conventional towel) round his neck, was taken to the Kokrajhar jail from the residence of the CJM, the place the listening to was held.

Mevani, an Independent MLA supported by the Congress, was apprehended from Palanpur city in Gujarat on Wednesday night time after a First Information Report (FIR) below varied sections of the IPC and the IT Act was filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet towards the prime minister.

According to the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi “considered Godse as God”.

Mevani was flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning after which taken to Kokrajhar by highway, the place he was produced on the chief judicial Justice of the Peace’s court docket, which remanded him to 3 days’ police custody.