A court in western Assam’s Barpeta rejected independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani’s bail petition and sent him to five days’ police custody on Tuesday.
Mr Mevani was re-arrested on Monday on charges of “assaulting and outraging the modesty of a woman police officer” soon after another court in Kokrajhar, about 85 km west of Barpeta, granted him bail in a case related to an “offensive” tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Barpeta police had sought 12 days’ custody of Mr Mevani. But the court of the chief judicial magistrate, while rejecting his bail petition, gave them five days.
