FIR against the brains behind Shaheen Bagh stir for hate speeches

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FIR against the brains behind Shaheen Bagh stir for hate speeches

Monday, 27 January 2020 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

FIR against the brains behind Shaheen Bagh stir for hate speeches

The Delhi Police has registered  a First Information Report (FIR) on Sunday against  Sharjeel Imam, an activist who came in limelight during the ongoing protest in Shaheen Bagh against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the planned National Register of Citizens (NRC).

According to the police, Imam, a resident of  Bihar and former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student, delivered “very inflammatory and instigating speeches in his opposition to CAA and NRC”.

“He had previously delivered one such speech in Jamia Millia Islamia on December 13 last year and thereafter one even more inflammatory against the Government which is being widely circulated on social media,” a senior police official said. These speeches have the “potential to harm the religious harmony” and the unity and integrity of India, for which the case was registered against him, police said.

A sedition case was lodged against Imam on Saturday for a speech he delivered on the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus on January 16. The Assam Police have also filed an FIR under the anti-terror law UAPA against Imam for his speech.

Imam was seen in a video that has gone viral on the social media delivering inflammatory speeches against CAA and NRC outside Jamia. Imam was heard saying in an audio clip that Assam should be cut off from the rest of India and taught a lesson, as Bengalis — both Hindus and Muslims — are being killed or put into detention centres.

He reportedly said if he can organise five lakh people, it would become possible to “permanently cut off Assam with rest of India...If not permanently, then at least for a few months”.

A case against Imam under IPC sections 124 A (an offence 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) has been registered, the Delhi police said.

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