In the new case, Mevani is accused of “assaulting and outraging” the modesty of a woman police officer. Police team from Assam’s Barpeta came to arrest the Gujarat MLA, charged him under sections of the Indian Penal Code related to voluntarily causing hurt and stopping a government officer from doing his or her work.
Guwahati: Moments after granting bail by a local court, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani re-arrested by Assam Police in another case on Monday. Mevani was earlier arrested over tweets on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An Assam court on Sunday reserved its order on the bail application and his bail was granted on Monday.
In the new case, Mevani is accused of “assaulting and outraging” the modesty of a woman police officer. Police team from Assam’s Barpeta came to arrest the Gujarat MLA, charged him under sections of the Indian Penal Code related to voluntarily causing hurt and stopping a government officer from doing his or her work.
On Wednesday night, the Dalit leader was arrested by the Assam Police from a circuit house in Palanpur in Gujarat over his now-deleted tweets on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mevani, who was first taken to Ahmedabad, was flown to Assam on Thursday morning.
Mevani’s arrest came after BJP MLA from Assam’s Kokrajhar, Arup Kumar Dey, filed a complaint. “Kokrajhar police arrested Congress Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani from Palanpur Circuit House last night,” Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police Thube Prateek Vijay Kumar told media persons.
Hours after his arrest, a local court in Assam on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and sent him to three-day police custody.