Gujarat BJP MLA Convicted In Rioting Case, Will get 6-Month Sentence
Raghavji Patel was once a Congress MLA when the incident took placein August 2007. (Document picture)
Jamnagar:
A Gujarat court docket has sentenced BJP MLA Raghavji Patel and 4 others to 6 months’ imprisonment in a case of vandalism and rioting at a executive sanatorium in Jamnagar district in 2007.
Judicial Justice of the Peace First Magnificence H J Zala at Dhrol in Jamnagar pronounced the sentence on Tuesday, and later all of the 5 had been additionally granted bail by way of the court docket, assistant public prosecutor Ramsinh Bhuria mentioned.
The court docket on Tuesday convicted Jamnagar (rural) MLA Raghavji Patel and 4 others within the case involving harm to public assets and attack and prison power on executive servants.
With the exception of the sentence, the court docket additionally imposed a high-quality of Rs 10,000 on each and every of them.
Raghavji Patel was once a Congress MLA when the incident came about in August 2007.
He and his supporters went to a sanatorium in Dhrol the town of Jamnagar to post a memorandum and compelled their manner into the place of job of a health care provider. They indulged in vandalism and brought about harm to the sanatorium assets.
The court docket had previous rejected the federal government’s plea to withdraw the case in opposition to Patel after he joined the ruling BJP, Mr Bhuria mentioned.
On August 10, 2007, a case was once lodged at Dhrol police station right here in opposition to 8 individuals below IPC sections for illegal meeting, rioting, attack or prison power to discourage a public servant from acting his responsibility, harm to public assets, amongst others, and the Prevention of Injury to Public Assets Act.
On Tuesday, the court docket convicted Raghavji Patel, Narendrasinh Jadeja, Jitu Shrimali, Jayesh Bhatt and Karansinh Jadeja had been convicted, whilst 3 others – Sabbir Chawda, Pacha Varu and Lagdhirsinh Jadeja – had been acquitted for need of proof in opposition to them, Mr Bhuria mentioned.
Raghavji Patel gained from the Jamnagar (rural) seat on Congress’s price tag within the state Meeting election in December 2017, and later resigned as legislator to enroll in the BJP.
He contested the 2019 Meeting by-election as a BJP candidate from the similar seat and gained.
