JNU Student Sharjeel Imam has been arrested from Jehanabad, Bihar by Delhi Police. Imam had been booked for sedition by Police
New Delhi: Sharjeel Imam, activist and Ph.D. student at JNU, went missing from 26 January gets arrested by Delhi police in Jehanabad from Bihar. He was slapped sedition cases by several states for his alleged inflammatory speeches, was arrested in Bihar’s Jehanabad on January 28.
On January 16 the Assam and Uttar Pradesh police filed sedition cases against SharjeeI Imam for a speech that he had made against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Aligarh Muslim University. The Assam police have filed an FIR against Imam under the anti-terror law UAPA.
JNU Student Sharjeel Imam has been arrested from Jehanabad, Bihar by Delhi Police. Imam had been booked for sedition by Police.
JNU Student Sharjeel Imam has been arrested from Jahanabad,Bihar by Delhi Police. Imam had been booked for sedition by Police. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/7zFmWFbWIf
— ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2020
Imam sparked controversy by saying “If we have five lakh, people, with us, we can separate the Northeast from India. If not permanently, for one or two months. Put pile of brick and stones on tracks and streets…. Assam aur India katke alag ho jaaye, tabhi ye humari baat sunenge (Once Assam is cut off, then only they will listen to us)… We can do that because the Chicken’s Neck corridor (connecting Northeast to the rest of India) is dominated by Muslims.”
Imam had been involved in organizing the protests at Shaheen Bagh but came into limelight after a video clip went viral wherein he could be heard allegedly making some disturbing comments while addressing a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Following this, he was booked under sedition in the Uttar Pradesh town.
The Delhi Police claimed that he had given an “inflammatory” speech earlier on the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) campus and lodged an FIR against him in the national capital.
From the past two days, Delhi police were searching Imam he is found in Jehanbad, Bihar.
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