Sharjeel Imam’s mobile phone, laptop seized: Police
PTI, Feb 1, 2020, 11:30 AM IST
New Delhi: Activist Sharjeel Imam’s mobile phone and laptop along with some anti-CAA posters have been seized from his house in Bihar’s Jehanabad and rented flat in Vasant Kunj, police said on Friday.
Imam was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch from Jehanabad in a sedition case and he is being questioned by police for his alleged inflammatory speeches in Aligarh and at Jamia Millia Islamia University here.
During the investigation, a laptop and a desktop belonging to Imam were recovered from his rented flat at Vasant Kunj, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajesh Deo said.
His mobile phone was recovered from his house at his native place in Jehanabad’s Kako area on the instance of his brother, he said.
Imam had prepared anti-CAA and anti-NRC pamphlets with “misleading and intimidating facts” and then distributed them in various mosques, the copy of which has been recovered, police said.
The shop from where he made photocopies of the pamphlets has also been identified, they added.
Imam was arrested on Tuesday. He was brought to Delhi on Wednesday and produced at the residence of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Purushottam Pathak in the evening amid tight security after which police were granted his five-day custody.
The PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Historical Studies has been booked for sedition and other charges in several states after videos of his alleged inflammatory speeches, made during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), were circulated on the social media.
An FIR was registered against Imam by the Delhi Police on January 25 under IPC sections 124A (sedition) and 153A (promoting or attempting to promote disharmony or feelings of enmity on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, caste or community or any other ground whatsoever) among others.
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