Ahmedabad:

A local court here today extended the custody (remand) of Hardik Patel’s aide and co-accused with him in the sedition case lodged here in connection with the violence after August 2015 Patidar quota rally, Alpesh Kathiria to the crime branch of Ahmedabad police till August 26 for further interrogation.

Investigation officer in the case and PI J S Gedam said that after completion of the period of Kathiria’s first remand till today he was produced in the court which extended the remand till August 26.

Notably Kathiria, a native of Surat, was arrested on August 19 here. He was arrested initially with Hardik and seven others while trying to go to Narol area for a symbolic fast and was granted bail in that matter only to be arrested again in the sedition case lodge by the crime branch here in October 2015.

DeshGujarat