SC grants anticipatory bail till Mar 6 to Hardik Patel in Patidar stir case

A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices U U Lalit and Vineet Saran on Friday granted anticipatory bail till March 6 to Congress leader Hardik Patel in the case lodged against him in connection with violence during the 2015 Patidar stir in Gujarat.

New Delhi/ Gujarat: The Supreme Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail till March 6 to Congress leader Hardik Patel in the case lodged against him in connection with the violence during the Patidar stir in Gujarat in 2015.

A bench of Justices U U Lalit and Vineet Saran issued notice to the Gujarat government on Patel's plea seeking quashing of a case against him.

"The case was lodged in 2015 and the investigation is still pending in the matter. You can't sit on the case for five years," the bench said.

The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti under Patel had organised a mega rally in Ahmedabad as part of the quota stir, and an FIR was lodged for "unlawful assembly" as the police claimed the event did not have requisite permissions.

PTI Report