Court rejects bail plea of Ashwini Choubey's son

March 31, 2018 19:36

A Bhagalpur court today rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey's son Arijit Shashwat in connection with a case filed against him for allegedly triggering communal violence in the district earlier this month.

Additional District and Session Judge (IV) Kumud Ranjan rejected Shashwat's bail plea.

"The court pronounced a one-line order that Arijit Shashwat's anticipatory bail petition is rejected and fixed a date for pronouncing order for eight other accused persons' bail plea," said Shashwat's lawyer Viresh Kumar Mishra.

Shashwat, 36, has been named in one of the two FIRs for leading a procession without permission of the administration in Bhagalpur on March 17. Violence had erupted after people belonging to minority community objected to loud music being played during the procession.

A Bhagalpur court had issued an arrest warrant on March 24 against Shashwat and others named in the FIR.

-- PTI

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