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Courtroom sends Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani to one-day judicial custody; will listen bail on Monday 

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KOKRAJHAR: An area courtroom right here on Sunday despatched Gujarat Impartial legislator Jignesh Mevani, arrested from the western state via Assam Police on Wednesday for a purported Tweet towards the high minister, to one-day judicial custody, a police reliable stated.

The listening to in his case, together with his bail petition, might be taken up on Monday, he added.

Further superintendent of police of Kokrajhar Surjit Singh Panesar advised journalists right here that the courtroom of the Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) determined to remand him to in the future of judicial custody.

Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, and then he used to be produced prior to the courtroom overdue within the night time.

Panesar additionally stated Mevani might be produced once more on the courtroom on Monday morning and his listening to will proceed, together with on his bail petition.

Mevani, noticed with an Assamese gamocha (conventional towel) round his neck, used to be taken to the Kokrajhar prison from the place of abode of the CJM, the place the listening to used to be held.

Mevani, an Impartial MLA supported via the Congress, used to be apprehended from Palanpur the town in Gujarat on Wednesday night time after a First Knowledge File (FIR) beneath quite a lot of sections of the IPC and the IT Act used to be filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet towards the high minister.

In keeping with the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming High Minister Narendra Modi “thought to be Godse as God”.

Mevani used to be flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning after which taken to Kokrajhar via street, the place he used to be produced on the leader judicial Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, which remanded him to 3 days’ police custody.