Gujarat courtroom points arrest warrant towards Hardik Patel for failure to seem earlier than it in 2017 case
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SURENDRANAGAR: A courtroom in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has issued an arrest warrant towards Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Hardik Patel for failing to seem earlier than it in a 2017 case through which he’s accused of violating a authorities order.
Patel had made a political speech in violation of a authorities order at a village within the district forward of the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections.
Additional chief judicial Justice of the Peace D D Shah at Dhrangadhra issued the arrest warrant towards Patel for failure to seem the courtroom.
Through its order dated February 2, the courtroom directed the Dhrangadhra taluka police station officer in Surendranagar district to arrest Patel and produce him earlier than the courtroom with out fail.
The order was acquired by the police station on February 11, an official confirmed.
A primary data report (FIR) was registered at Dhrangadhra taluka police station on January 12, 2018 after Patel and a co-accused Kaushik Patel have been discovered to have violated the situation of the permission granted to them to organise a gathering at Haripar village within the district.
As per the FIR, the duo had sought permission to organise a gathering on the village on November 26, 2017, forward of the Assembly elections.
While they have been granted the permission, they allegedly violated the notification issued by the extra district Justice of the Peace in a speech delivered through the assembly.
They have been booked underneath sections 37 (3) and 135 of the Gujarat (Bombay) Police Act, 1951, coping with punishment for disobeying authorities orders.
Notably, a courtroom at Jamnagar had final week acquitted Patel in an identical case for making a political speech in violation of a authorities order at a rally at Dhutarpar village in November 2017.
At that point, Patel headed the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), a Patidar group organisation that organised state-wide agitation demanding reservation underneath OBC quota for the youths.
The agitation had turned violent.
Patel had joined the Congress in 2019, which he give up forward of the December 2022 Gujarat polls and was subsequently elected as an MLA on a BJP ticket from Viramgam constituency of Ahmedabad.
He faces greater than two dozen instances, together with two sedition instances, in Gujarat.
SURENDRANAGAR: A courtroom in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has issued an arrest warrant towards Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Hardik Patel for failing to seem earlier than it in a 2017 case through which he’s accused of violating a authorities order.
Patel had made a political speech in violation of a authorities order at a village within the district forward of the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections.
Additional chief judicial Justice of the Peace D D Shah at Dhrangadhra issued the arrest warrant towards Patel for failure to seem the courtroom.
Through its order dated February 2, the courtroom directed the Dhrangadhra taluka police station officer in Surendranagar district to arrest Patel and produce him earlier than the courtroom with out fail.
The order was acquired by the police station on February 11, an official confirmed.
A primary data report (FIR) was registered at Dhrangadhra taluka police station on January 12, 2018 after Patel and a co-accused Kaushik Patel have been discovered to have violated the situation of the permission granted to them to organise a gathering at Haripar village within the district.
As per the FIR, the duo had sought permission to organise a gathering on the village on November 26, 2017, forward of the Assembly elections.
While they have been granted the permission, they allegedly violated the notification issued by the extra district Justice of the Peace in a speech delivered through the assembly.
They have been booked underneath sections 37 (3) and 135 of the Gujarat (Bombay) Police Act, 1951, coping with punishment for disobeying authorities orders.
Notably, a courtroom at Jamnagar had final week acquitted Patel in an identical case for making a political speech in violation of a authorities order at a rally at Dhutarpar village in November 2017.
At that point, Patel headed the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), a Patidar group organisation that organised state-wide agitation demanding reservation underneath OBC quota for the youths.
The agitation had turned violent.
Patel had joined the Congress in 2019, which he give up forward of the December 2022 Gujarat polls and was subsequently elected as an MLA on a BJP ticket from Viramgam constituency of Ahmedabad.
He faces greater than two dozen instances, together with two sedition instances, in Gujarat.
