Gujarat HC discharges NCP MLA Kandhal Jadeja in Arms Act case
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The case was lodged in opposition to Jadeja in Porbandar after he was allegedly caught with weapons in 1998.
The Gujarat High Court has discharged NCP MLA Kandhal Jadeja in a prison case registered in opposition to him below the Arms Act in 1998.
In an order issued on Monday, Justice Vipul Pancholi allowed the discharge plea of Jadeja, after his lawyer argued there was no proof in opposition to him and the assertion made by the co-accused was not admissible earlier than regulation.
Jadeja is an MLA from Kutiyana in Porbandar district.
The case was lodged in opposition to Jadeja in Porbandar after he was allegedly caught with weapons in 1998.
The HC had earlier stayed framing of costs in opposition to him in a neighborhood court docket.
Jadeja moved the HC in 2015 after the decrease court docket rejected his plea to discharge him in the case.
Jadeja, the one NCP MLA in Gujarat, has a number of prison instances registered in opposition to him, together with of rioting armed with lethal weapons, voluntarily inflicting damage, illegal meeting, inpolice stations in Porbandar, Rajkot and Ahmedabad, as per his ballot affidavit.
