Guwahati: In assaulting woman constable case, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani has been granted bail by a court. On April 25, he was re-arrested in the alleged assault case. Yesterday he had moved the court seeking bail. First, he was arrested for tweeting objectionable tweets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and after getting bail he was again arrested by Assam Police in a case of assault and molestation of a woman police constable.
“It is a conspiracy by the BJP and the RSS. They did this to tarnish my image. They have been doing this systematically. They did it to Rohit Vemula, they did it to Chandrasekhar Azad, now they are targeting me,” Mevani told reporters on the day he got bail in the case of the tweets.
After his bail petition was rejected by Barpeta’s Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), on Tuesday he was sent to five days of police custody.
The Gujarat MLA was arrested soon after the CJM’s court in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday. He was granted bail six days after he was arrested by Assam police from his home state in Gujarat for tweeting objectionable tweets against PM Modi.
He was first arrested on April 20 in connection with an “objectionable” tweet against the Prime Minister posted on April 18. Mevani was flown to Guwahati the next day and then taken to Kokrajhar by road.
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