A local magisterial court in Gujarat’s Mehsana convicted leading activist and independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and nine others in a five-year-old case on Thursday.
The court sentenced them to three months’ imprisonment for taking out an ‘Azadi march’ from Mehsana to Dhanera in Banaskantha district without police permission in July 2017. Besides Mr. Mevani, NCP leader and former member of the Patidar agitation Reshma Patal has also been convicted under section 143 of the Indian Penal Code.
