{"id":319465,"date":"2020-01-28T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319465"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:13:00","slug":"sharjeel-imam-arrested-from-bihar-in-sedition-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sharjeel-imam-arrested-from-bihar-in-sedition-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharjeel Imam arrested from Bihar in Sedition Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319477 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sharjeet-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Sharjeet-1.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Sharjeet-1-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Sharjeet-1-384x420.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/>JNU student Sharjeel Imam, the man who has been booked for sedition, was arrested from Bihar\u2019s Jehanabad on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The arrest was made by the Delhi Police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His arrest took place hours after his younger brother, Muzzamil Imam, was picked up for questioning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sedition cases were lodged against Sharjeel Imam across several states for alleged inflammatory speeches he made during protests against the Citizenship Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharjeel Imam came into limelight after his video went viral in which he could be heard making an inflammatory speech while addressing a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi police claimed he made divisive speech at the Jamia Millia Islamia University\u00a0campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FIRs were filed against him in both the above cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh had also lodged FIRs against Imam over his remarks to &#8220;cut off&#8221; Assam and the northeast from the rest of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JNU student Sharjeel Imam, the man who has been booked for sedition, was arrested from Bihar\u2019s Jehanabad on Tuesday. The arrest was made by the Delhi Police. His arrest took place hours after his younger brother, Muzzamil Imam, was picked up for questioning.\u00a0 Sedition cases were lodged against Sharjeel Imam across several states for alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319478,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319465\/revisions\/319478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}