Hardik Patel moves SC after HC dismisses his plea to stay conviction in rioting case

Cong leader Hardik Patel moves SC against Gujarat HC order rejecting plea to stay his conviction in 2015 Vispur rioting case. After the high court's judgement, Hardik's lawyers said they would first study the order and then decide about approaching the Supreme Court. Hardik, who joined the Congress on March 12, had expressed his willingness to contest the election from Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat.

In July last year, the sessions court at Visnagar in Mehsana district sentenced Patel to two years of imprisonment for rioting and arson in Visnagar town in 2015 during the Patidar quota stir. In August last year, the high court suspended the lower court's order sentencing him to two years' jail term in the 2015 rioting case but did not stay his conviction.