By IANS,
Ahmedabad : Fatehsinh Chauhan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator arrested Monday for his alleged role in communal violence of 2002 in Gujarat, was Tuesday sent to two-day police remand.
A court in Panchmahal district sent the legislator from Rajgadh to two-day police remand.
Chauhan had been termed an absconder by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing main cases of violence following the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express in which 59 passengers had died at Godhra Feb 27, 2002.
Police arrested him Monday after a case of rioting was registered against him in Dahod town near his constituency.
The ruling party legislator has been accused of inciting riots in Vav Kundli village of Devgarh Baria sub-district, near Godhra and about 150 km from here, on March 2, 2002.
Chauhan is the second BJP legislator to be arrested in connection with the communal violence that claimed 1,169 lives.
Maya Kodnani, who was then minister of state for higher education and women welfare, had been arrested by the SIT earlier this year. She is now out on bail.