Sharjeel Imam's phone, laptop seized
February 01, 2020 00:22
Activist Sharjeel Imam's
mobile phone and laptop along with some anti-Citizenship Amendment Act 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 the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi.
During 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 have 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 Indian Penal C ode
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. -- PTI