In a case of alleged assault of a women police officer, the Gauhati High Court on Monday stayed some of the findings made by a lower court last week against Assam police while granting bail to Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani from Gujarat.
According to the HC, the stay on the observations “cannot be construed in any way as a stay of the grant of bail” to Mevani by the lower court in connection with this case.
Having followed Mevani’s bail order on April 29, the Assam government, through its home department, filed a petition in the Supreme Court, asking for a stay on the observations made by Barpeta district and sessions judge Aparesh Chakravarty, claiming that they cast doubt on the police force and could affect morale.
Chakravarty claimed in his bail order that the case against the MLA was “fabricated” by Assam police with the sole purpose of keeping him in detention for a longer period of time by “abusing the court process and the law.”
