Gujarat High Court rejects bail pleas of three top Patidar agitators

Ahmedabad

Gujarat High Court today refused to grant regular bail to three jailed PAAS leaders in connection with a case lodged under charges of sedition.

The single bench of Justice A J Desai pronouncing his verdict dismissed the bail pleas of Dinesh Bambhaniya, Chirag Patel and Ketan Patel saying that the bail cannot be granted at this juncture when the investigation was still on.

The court however said that they were free to file fresh bail petition after filing of the charge sheet in the case.

The trio is lodged in Sabarmati jail here.

The case was lodged by the crime branch here on October 21. A total of six leaders of Patidar Anamat Aandolan Samiti (PAAS), including its convener Hardik Patel were made accused in the case based on their telephonic intercept.
The intercepts were recorded since days before the outfit’s pro reservation rally in GMDC ground of Ahmedabad on August 25 following which a state wide violence erupted claiming 10 lives and a large scale damage of government property. Two other accused in the case were PAAS leaders Amul Patel and Alpesh Kathiria.

Hardik, who is accused in yet another case of sedition, had filed his bail petition in the Ahmedabad sedition case on December 21 on which the high court has issued notice to the state government. He is lodged in Lajpore central jail of Surat.

– DeshGujarat