Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani remanded to five-day police custody in assault case
Zee News
A woman sub-inspector had filed a complaint with the Barpeta Road police station on April 21 against Mevani.
NEW DELHI: Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was on Tuesday remanded to five-day police custody by a court in Assam in connection with an assault case against him filed by a woman police officer, said news agency PTI.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Mukul Chetia remanded Mevani to police custody when he was produced in his court in the afternoon, according to PTI.
Mevani has been booked under IPC sections 294 (uttering obscene words in public), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 353 (assaulting a public servant in the execution of duty) and 354 (using criminal force on a woman intending to outrage her modesty).
The Assam Police had on Monday re-arrested Independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, soon after a court in Kokrajhar district granted bail to him, six days after he was arrested by Assam police in connection with an "objectionable" tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The police from the Barpeta district arrested Mevani on different charges, including outraging the modesty of a woman police officer.
