Staged agitation by blocking road; Court sentences Jignesh Mevani to prison

AHMEDABAD: A court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced Congress leader and MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months imprisonment. The case was related to a road blockade agitation staged by Mevani and his associates in 2016.

The Metropolitan Magistrate awarded three different sentences under the three different sections of IPC - six months jail under one, Rs 500 fine under another, and Rs 100 fine in the third.

It has stayed the operative part of the order, so Mevani and others can appeal the order before the sessions court.

In 2016, Mevani and others were leading protests demanding to name Gujarat University's Law Department as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan. The protest turned violent and the premises were vandalised. All protestors were arrested and produced before the court.