Gujarat: A magisterial court on Thursday convicted Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani including nine others for holding a rally from Mehsana town in July 2107 without police permission.
All the convicts have been sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 each in the said five-year-old case.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate JA Parmar found Jignesh Mevani and nine others, including NCP functionary Reshma Patel and some members of Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch, guilty of being part of an unlawful assembly, under section 143 of the Indian Penal Code.
In July 2017, the Mehsana 'A' division police had lodged an FIR under IPC section 143 against Mevani and others for carrying out the 'Azadi march' from Mehsana to Dhanera in Banaskantha district without permission.
The court observed that they could have challenged the order of the executive magistrate before appropriate higher authorities and then held the rally after getting due permission.
Notably, Mevani was recently granted bail by a Kokrajhar court on Friday and walked out of jail on Saturday, and returned to his hometown Gujarat this week.
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