Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani Gets 6 Months In Jail In Rioting Case
NDTV
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P N Goswami, who also imposed a fine on Jignesh Mevani and others, suspended their sentence till October 17 to enable them to file appeals.
A court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced Gujarat Congress's working president and MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months of simple imprisonment in a 2016 case of rioting.
The case was related to a road blockade agitation staged by Jignesh Mevani and his associates.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P N Goswami, who also imposed a fine on Mevani and others, suspended their sentence till October 17 to enable them to file appeals.
The case was registered against Jignesh Mevani and 19 others at the University police station here in 2016 for staging a road blockade to press their demand that an under-construction building of the law department of Gujarat University is named for Dr B R Ambedkar.
