Guwahati: A local court in Assam’s Kokrajhar district has granted bail to Gujarat MLA Jignesh , who was arrested by Assam Police over tweets on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mevani was apprehended at a Palanpur Circuit House around 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday and taken to Assam’s Kokrajhar.
It may be mentioned that he was charged with criminal conspiracy, encouraging hostility between communities, intentional insult with the goal to create a breach of peace, and sections of the Information Technology Act, according to police in Kokrajhar.
It is to be noted that Arup Kumar Dey, a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, filed a complaint against Mevani at the Kokrajhar Police Station, alleging that Mevani wrote in one of his tweets that PM Modi worships Godse.