Imam was arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad on January 28 for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at the Jamia Millia Islamia University here and in Aligarh.
A Delhi court on Monday extended the police custody for three more days of JNU student Sharjeel Imam, who was arrested by the Delhi Police on sedition charges.
According to news agencies, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police requested the court to grant them the extension of custody for Imam on the basis of a WhatsApp group associated with him. According to police sources cited by ANI, the JNU student was being provoked by several members of the group to make a rousing speech on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Imam was produced at the residence of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Purushottam Pathak in the evening amidst high security, advocate Mishika Singh, appearing for the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) research scholar in the matter, told news agency PTI. Earlier, Imam was on Wednesday sent by the Delhi court to five-day custody under the Delhi Police's Crime Branch.
Imam was arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad on January 28 for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at the Jamia Millia Islamia University here and in Aligarh.
Imam was arrested by the Delhi Police on Tuesday from Bihar's Jehanabad district over his recent controversial comments. The Delhi Police had earlier lodged an FIR against Imam for sedition.
Multiple FIRs were filed against Sharjeel over his speech at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus on January 16 where he reportedly said: "Assam should be cut off from the rest of India". He had been booked by the UP Police, Assam Police, and later the Delhi Police.
A series of videos recently went viral on social media where it appeared that Imam, the chief co-ordinator of the protest at Shaheen Bagh, was saying, "If all of us come together, we can separate the Northeast from India. If we cannot do it permanently, then at least for 1-2 months we can do this. It will take the administration at least one month to disperse all of them."
Delhi Police on Sunday booked Sharjeel Imam for allegedly delivering inflammatory speeches against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The case by Delhi Police was registered under IPC sections 124 A (an offense by words, either spoken or written causes disaffection against Government established by law), 153 A (promoting enmity between different religious groups with an intent to create disharmony) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief).
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