Gujarat Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani, on Tuesday, has been sent to police custody for five days by an Assam court, in connection with an alleged incident of "assaulting and outraging" the modesty of a woman police officer.
The court also rejected his bail petition.
Mevani, an MLA supported by the Congress, was booked under IPC sections related to voluntarily causing hurt, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his or her duty after a policewoman filed a complaint against him. The alleged incident occurred when the police officer was escorting the Dalit leader from Guwahati airport to Kokrajhar.
The MLA was rearrested earlier after a court in Assam's Kokrajhar district granted bail to him in a case over a tweet by him against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mevani was arrested on April 19 from Palanpur town in Gujarat after an FIR was registered against him in Kokrajhar for his tweet against the PM.
Mevani's lawyer Angshuman Bora had earlier told news agency PTI that the allegations of assault against the MLA were "atrocious."
