AHMEDABAD: A court in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani along with six others in a 2016 case that had been registered against them for charges of unlawful assembly and rioting.
The additional metropolitan magistrate PN Goswami presided over the case and acquitted Mevani, along with Manabhai Pateliya, Ramesh Bariya, Mukesh Patel, Dashrath Pagi, Meesh Narsinh, and Darshan Pathadiya. The charges against them included unlawful assembly, rioting, and causing damage to public property.