Assam: A local court in Assam’s Kokrajhar city rejected the bail application of Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and sent him to three-day police custody, The Hindu reported.
Mevani, an Independent MLA who has extended his support to the Congress party, was arrested on Wednesday night by the Assam Police for his tweets about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He was detained in Palanpur city at 11.30 pm and taken to Ahmedabad. From there, he was flown to Assam.
The case against him was filed based on a police complaint by Arup Kumar Dey, a resident of Bhabanipur in Assam’s Kokrajhar district. The complaint said Mevani wrote on Twitter that “Modi worships and considers [Nathuram] Godse as God”. Godse had assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
The complainant also mentioned the MLA’s advise to Modi to appeal for peace and harmony during his April 20 visit to communal violence-hit sites in Gujarat. The two tweets were posted by Mevani on April 18 and have been withheld by Twitter on “legal demand”.
During the MLA’s bail hearing, the court said that Mevani was not to be taken anywhere outside Kokrajhar while he was in police custody, according to The New Indian Express. The police had sought custody for 14 days. Scroll. In
