A local court in Gujarat on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator and prominent Scheduled Castes (SC) activist Jignesh Mevani and six others in a 2016 case registered against them for unlawful assembly and rioting.
The court of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate P.N. Goswami acquitted Mr. Mevani, Manabhai Pateliya, Ramesh Bariya, Mukesh Patel, Dashrath Pagi, Meesh Narsinh, and Darshan Pathadiya, who were booked on charges of unlawful assembly, rioting, and causing damage to public property.
They were accused of damaging a police vehicle, shouting slogans, and rioting while being taken to a stadium under detention for organising a protest at a crossroads on Ashram Road to support the cause of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s sanitation workers in September 2016.
