“He is expected to be released on 30 April owing to some formalities," said lawyer Anghsuman Bora, adding that Mevani was granted bail on a Personal Recognisance (PR) bond of ₹1,000.
The court had heard Mevani's lawyer and the public prosecutor on Thursday on the bail application and reserved the order for Friday.
The Dalit leader was earlier on Monday released on bail by a court in Kokrajhar in another case related to a tweet by him on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Around 30 minutes later, he was re-arrested in a case related to “assaulting" a policewoman while he was being brought by a police posse from Guwahati to Kokrajhar.
He was booked under IPC sections 294 (uttering obscene words in public), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 353 (assaulting a public servant in the execution of duty) and 354 (using criminal force to a woman intending to outrage her modesty).
The independent MLA backed by Congress was arrested on 19 April from Palanpur town in Gujarat after an FIR was lodged in Kokrajhar Police Station over his tweet, in which he had said PM Modi "considered Godse as God".
After his arrest, Mevani said this was "vendetta politics by the PMO (Prime Minister's Office).
"It is a conspiracy by the BJP and the RSS. They did this to tarnish my image. They have been doing this systematically. They did it to Rohit Vemula, they did it to Chandrasekhar Azad, now they are targeting me," he stated.
A couple of tweets on Mevani's Twitter handle are not visible on his feed with a message displaying that the tweets have been withheld in India based on a "legal demand".
The Assam state Congress unit had protested the arrest of the Gujarat legislator.
Elected as an independent MLA, Mevani had extended his support to Congress in September 2019.
