India
oi-Deepika S
Guwahati,
Apr
30:
A
local
court
of
Barpeta
district
of
Assam
grants
bail
to
Jignesh
Mevani
in
case
of
alleged
assault
on
a
policewoman.
He
is
expected
to
be
released
on
April
30
owing
to
some
formalities.
Mevani,
an
MLA
supported
by
the
Congress,
was
booked
under
IPC
Sections
related
to
voluntarily
causing
hurt,
assault
or
criminal
force
to
deter
public
servant
from
discharge
of
his
duty
and
others.
The
Gujarat
legislator
was
arrested
on
April
19
from
Palanpur
town
in
Gujarat
after
an
FIR
was
registered
against
him
in
Kokrajhar.
Mevani,
41,
allegedly
used
slang
words
against
the
policewoman
on
April
21
while
the
lawmaker
was
being
brought
from
the
Guwahati
airport
to
Kokrajhar.
He
was
arrested
from
Gujarat’s
Palanpur
on
April
20
and
brought
to
Guwahati
the
next
day.
Mevani,
a
legislator
from
Vadgam,
and
taken
to
Kokrajhar,
where
ruling
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
functionary
Arup
Kumar
Dey
filed
the
case
related
to
alleged
tweets
against
Modi.
Mevani
was
sent
in
three-day
police
remand
on
April
21
and
a
day’s
judicial
remand
on
April
24
before
he
was
rearrested
in
connection
with
the
second
case.
Last
year,
Mevani
had
held
a
press
conference
along
with
former
JNU
students’s
union
leader,
Kanhaiya
Kumar
along
with
Rahul
Gandhi.
Mevani
had
extended
support
to
the
Congress
till
the
end
of
his
term
as
an
independent
MLA.