India, Aug. 25 -- The Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Chaitar Vasava in an assault and extortion case in which he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment along with eight others by a sessions court in Narmada district.

Vasava has not yet been disqualified as a member of the State Assembly.

A single bench of Justice Vimal K Vyas rejected Vasava's plea for suspension of sentence and observed that being a member of the legislative assembly, he ought to have guided the aggrieved persons to seek lawful remedies rather than resort to intimidation and coerce Government employees, as materials on record prima facie reflect.

"(The MLA) resorted to arranging and paying compensation to the indiv...