JNU student Sharjeel Imam has been arrested from Jahanabad, Bihar by Delhi Police. Imam had been booked for sedition.
A sedition case was registered against Imam in Delhi for his alleged call to cut-off the whole of the northeast from the rest of India. Imam has been brought to Jahanabad court.
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Many other cases were also registered against him in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh after a video of him allegedly making anti-national comments was widely circulated online.
The Delhi Police claimed that Imam made divisive speeches on two occasions, once at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi at the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in December.
The other at the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, another epicentre of the protests against the CAA.