Supreme Court stays Hardik Patel’s conviction

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 12

Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel can contest the upcoming Assembly elections in the state as the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed his conviction in a rioting and arson case during the 2015 Patidar quota agitation in Visnagar.

“Having regard to the facts and circumstances, we are of the view that this is the fit case for the High Court to have stayed the conviction. The conviction is, hereby, stayed until the appeals are decided accordingly,” a Bench led by Justice SA Nazeer said.

The order came on Patel’s petition challenging the Gujarat HC’s judgment refusing to suspend the July 25, 2018, conviction order passed by a sessions court in Mahesana, Visnagar, to enable him to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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