Jignesh Mevani speaks to the media during a press conference in Delhi.
New Delhi:
Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani on Monday attacked the Assam government and police for his arrest, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as for a “conspiracy” to tarnish his image ahead of state elections at the end of the year. this year.
“I call this 56 inches of cowardice, using a woman to frame me in a fake case… The Prime Minister’s office was involved in this conspiracy,” he said.
Mr Mevani also announced that he will take to the streets and secure a Gujarat Bandh on June 1 on a range of issues – seeking action against those behind the leak of 22 exam papers, the recall of nearly here of “Rs 1.75 lakh-crore” worth of drugs from Mundra Port, and to urge the withdrawal of all cases against Dalits in Una and against minorities in the state.
Saying that the government of Himanta Biswa Sarma of Assam should be “ashamed” by the strong remarks made by the court that granted him bail, he said, “On April 19 the FIR was registered. The police went away. over 2,500 kilometers in the same day to capture me. a pre-planned plot to destroy me.”
Mr. Mevani, an Independent MLA in Gujarat, was arrested last month by a squad of Assamese police from Palanpur town in Gujarat for several tweets critical of Prime Minister Modi. The case was filed by a BJP leader in Assam.
He was released on bail on April 25 and was immediately re-arrested in an assault case filed by a female police officer, which the court deemed “manufactured”.
He was finally released from prison on Saturday after a local court in Assam granted him bail on Friday.
Elected an independent MLA, Mr. Mevani extended his support to Congress in September 2019.
Harshly criticizing the state police for trying to frame him, Assam’s Barpeta, on order to release Mr. Mevani on bail, asked the Gauhati Supreme Court to hear the petition against police excesses in the state on its own. state.
The courts also asked the Gauhati High Court to order Assam Police to wear body cameras and install CCTV cameras in their vehicles to record the sequence of events when a defendant is detained.
Judge Aparesh Chakraborty during the trial said: “The transformation of our hard-earned democracy into a police state is simply unthinkable. “If the case is immediately accepted as true and according to the woman’s testimony recorded by the judge … and it is not, then we will have to rewrite the country’s criminal law,” the court said. know.
“Contrary to the FIR (first informational report), the woman who gave a different story before the judge was learned… According to the woman’s testimony, the case was immediately produced with purpose of detaining the accused Jignesh Mevani for a longer period of time, abusing the court process and the law,” the court said.
