High court completes hearing on Kathiria’s bail plea, verdict likely on Nov 19
October 30, 2018
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court today completed hearing on the bail petition of Hardik Patel’s aide Alpesh Kathiria in the sedition case lodged here in connection with the violence after August 2015 Patidar quota rally by the crime branch of Ahmedabad police.
The court is likely to pronounce its verdict on November 19 and because of this Kathiria will have to spend his Diwali in jail.
Kathiria’s lawyer during course of argument said that the case was a result of political animosity against his client. The government lawyer on the other hand opposed his bail plea.
Kahtiria had moved high court after the session court rejected his bail plea.
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 with others only to be arrested again in the sedition case lodge by the crime branch here in October 2015.
Hardik, who was also arrested earlier in this case and granted bail by Gujarat High Court, had made release of Kathiria one of the main issues during his fast.
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