Ahmedabad

Hardik Patel.

In present month, he was first arrested in Rajkot on October 18 for insult of national flag.

On October 19, he was released on bail by Rajkot court and imidiately arrested by Surat police crime branch team for sedition case filed in Surat.

In Surat, the court sent him to three days police custody(remand) on October 20.

During three days remand he was taken to Gandhinagar based Forensic Science Laboratory for Voice Spectrography test.

After three days remand, Surat court sent him to 14 days judicial custody(jail) yesterday on October 23.

But then yesterday itself, the Ahmedabad police crime branch arrested him in another sedition case filed in Ahmedabad.

Late in the night Crime Branch took Hardik to Ahmdedabad and briefly produced him before a group of media gathered outside the Crime Branch office for photos.

There were no expressions on Hardik’s face.

The Crime Branch in Ahmedabad has earlier arrested Hardik’s three aides in same offense, and sought 14 days police custody(remand), against which the court granted 7 days custody.

It is assumed that Hardik will be produced in Metro court in Ahmedabad later today, and police will demand 14 days custody. As the court has approved 7 days custody of his aides in same offense, and as Hardik is the main accused, Hardik may get 7 days police custody.

While Hardik’s father has challenged the sedition complaint filed in Surat in the High Court through advocate BM Mangukia who is also Gujarat Congress’s legal cell head, Hardik’s aides have challenged sedition complaint filed in Ahmedabad in the high court in separate plea. Time will say whether verdicts in these cases are in favor of Hardik or against him, or whether the state government will challenge any adverse verdict in the Supreme Court or not.

Then suppose if the court junks sedition cases against Hardik and aides, there are another case against already filed in Mahesana district, for which arrests will be made definately.

Worth noting that another Hardik aide Nilesh Ervadia, wo was arrested earlier by Ahmedabad city crime branch in a case of sedition, was arrested by Aravalli police for his presence in a condolence sabha organized in Tenpur village on September 22. So after all the cases described above including the cases in Mahesana, Hardik could land in Aravalli police net.

The state government after all doesn’t want any nuisance activities during Diwali festival and upcoming civic/panchayat polls that are scheduled in later part of November.

– DeshGujarat