New Delhi: Supreme Court rejects bail to Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel on Friday and asked Gujarat government to conclude its investigation within 45 days.
The apex court also directs Gujarat Police not to file charge sheet in sedition case without its permission and posts the case for hearing on January 5.
Patel was arrested on October 23 by the city crime branch in connection with the second sedition case registered against him and sent to judicial custody by a Surat court.
Surat police first booked him for sedition for allegedly advising a local youth to kill the police rather than commit suicide.
On October 21, the Ahmedabad police’s crime branch filed sedition case against the 22-year-old leader and five of his aides, Ketan Patel, Dinesh Patel, Chirag Patel, Alpesh Kathiria and Amrish Patel under IPC sections 121 (waging war against the government), 124 (sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities) and 153-B (assertions prejudicial to national integrity).
The FIR said Hardik had instigated his community to adopt violent means to “wage war” against the Gujarat government. It relied on transcripts of various telephonic conversations and speeches made by Hardik and other members of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) wherein they allegedly instigated the Patel agitators to “wage war against the state government”.
The FIR also consists of transcripts of the alleged conversations between PAAS members and other agitators about disrupting the law-and-order situation and taking revenge for police atrocities.
It also cites Hardik’s speech where he asked the community members to “throw bomb in the state Assembly”, and a conversation where Hardik’s aide Dinesh Patel was told by an unknown person how they had eliminated a couple of policemen in Surat on August 26, after the August 25 rally in Ahmedabad
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