New Delhi: A court in Ahmedabad has granted Gujarat Congress working president Hardik Patel to leave the state without permission for the next one year. In January 2020, the court had curtailed Patel’s freedom of movement due to the 2015 sedition case it is hearing.Patel was the leader of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) and was leading protests demanding reservations for the community when he was charged with sedition. He was arrested after he missed multiple court hearings, and later granted bail in January 2020 under the condition that he does not leave Gujarat without the court’s permission, the Times of India reported.Additional sessions judge B.J. Ganatra relaxed this bail condition on Wednesday for one year. Patel’s lawyer Rafik Lokhandwala had earlier filed a petition asking for the condition to be deleted entirely or relaxed for a period of two years. Patel had said that as a political leader and social activist, he often has to leave the state for work.The Ahmedabad Crime Branch had opposed this plea, saying “if this application is granted, there are all possibilities of the applicant not complying with the conditions imposed by the court”, Indian Express reported.Patel had made the same request in July 2020, which the sessions court had denied. He had then appealed in the Gujarat high court, which too had dismissed his plea.