SC says plea will be considered after completion of probe
SC says plea will be considered after completion of probe
New Delhi
: Supreme Court on Friday rejected bail to activist Hardik Patel and asked the Gujarat government to conclude its investigation within 45 days.
Supreme Court said that the plea will be considered after completion of probe.
However, the court has asked Gujarat Police not to file charge sheet in sedition case without its permission and posts the case for hearing on January 5.
Earlier, Patel has been booked in Surat under the charges of sedition over alleged remarks on 'killing cops'.
In October, Hardik had spoken to a Patel youth who had threatened suicide in a letter to the police if his demands were not met and allegedly told him, -"If you have so much in you, kill 2-5 policemen but no Patel will die now.-"
However, later Hardik clarified that he meant no harm.
The Gujarat police had on Sunday detained Hardik and his aides near the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) stadium, the venue of the third one-day international between India and South Africa, where he had threatened to stage a protest.
Following his detention, Patidar members torched a state transport bus near Morbi town and briefly blocked some highways at several places in Surat, North Gujarat and Rajkot.
