AAP workers held in Gujarat over posters against Modi get bail

On April 4, the AAP workers were given bail by the metropolitan court for the complaint against them at the Vatva police station. Maninagar police station was the last of the four in which complaints were filed against the party workers.

On April 2, they were sent to judicial custody after the magistrate of a special court asked the hearing to be taken to the regular court. The Vatva police station, which had filed the transfer warrant on April 2, took the custody of the party workers the next morning. They were given bail on Tuesday.

Six FIRs were filed on March 30 against Natwar Thakor, Jatin Patel, Kuldeep Bhatt, Bipin Sharma, Ajay Chauhan in Isanpur (three FIRs), Vatva, Maninagar, and Narol police stations, under Sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the Indian Penal Code, as well as various sections of the Press and Registration of Books Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

“They were in judicial custody at the Sabarmati central jail since Sunday. On Wednesday, after they got bail from the charges filed in the Maninagar police station, they were released from the central jail,” said Mishra.

The release of the workers lead to a celebration at the AAP office in Ahmedabad in the presence of state president Isudan Gadhvi and state working president Jewel Vasra.