PM tweet row: Mevani rearrested in another case hrs after getting bail

Source: PTI - Edited By: Hemant Waje

Last updated on: April 25, 2022 18:21 IST

Gujarat Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani was rearrested by Assam Police on Monday for allegedly assaulting officials after a court in Kokrajhar granted him bail in a case related to a tweet by him against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

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Mevani, an MLA supported by the Congress, was booked under Indian Penal Code Sections related to voluntarily causing hurt, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty and others, police said.

Earlier in the day, a Kokrajhar court granted him bail in connection with a case related to his tweet against Modi.

The Gujarat legislator was arrested on April 19 from Palanpur town in Gujarat after a first information report (FIR) was registered against him in Kokrajhar Police Station over his tweet, in which he had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'considered Godse as God'.

The MLA was brought to Kokrajhar on transit remand and remanded to a three-day police custody on April 21 by the Kokrajhar Chief Judicial Magistrate.

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