A Kokrajhar court on Sunday sent Congress-backed Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani to judicial custody till Monday.

Assam Congress legal cell chief Monoj Bhagabati said chief judicial magistrate-in-charge B. Kakati had said Mevani’s bail petition would be decided on Monday. “The prosecution had sought his (Mevani’s) police custody for 10 days,” Bhagabati said.

The bail petition was moved around 7pm.

Mevani, 41, was arrested from Gujarat on Wednesday by a police team from Assam over a tweet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that carried a reference to Nathuram Godse.

On Thursday evening, Kokrajhar chief judicial magistrate N. Boro sent him to three days’ police custody, which ended on Sunday.

The Congress has beefed up its legal team by including senior Gauhati High Court advocate Angshuman Bora.

Kokrajhar police station had registered the case on a complaint from Arup Kumar Dey, BJP leader and elected member of the Bodoland Territorial Council. Dey said that Mevani’s tweet had the “propensity” to disturb public tranquillity.

The BJP is in power in both Assam and Gujarat.

Mevani faces charges under several penal sections, such as those dealing with criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity between communities, defiling a place of worship, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, and causing fear that induces an offence against the State or public tranquillity. He has also been booked under provisions of the Information Technology Act.

Led by Assam unit president Bhupen Kumar Borah, the Congress held a protest in Kokrajhar.