A city court on Friday sent 30 activists of the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) to three days’ judicial custody, a day after they were arrested following a protest outside Parliament Street police station.

They were protesting over an FIR against AIMIM party chief Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly posting and sharing messages on social media thereby allegedly inciting people on divisive lines. A total of 33 protesters, including women, were detained and an FIR was registered for disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant. According to Amrutha Guguloth, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), New Delhi district, the 30 protesters were arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and produced before the court on Friday.

The Delhi Police has registered FIRs against former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand and others for allegedly posting and sharing messages on social media against maintenance of public tranquility and inciting people on divisive lines. The FIRs were registered after an analysis of social media, police said.

 "The cases have been registered against those who were posting and sharing messages against maintenance of public tranquility and were inciting people on basis of divisive lines," a senior police officer said.

A case has also been registered against other social media entities, like Shadab Chauhan, Saba Naqvi, Maulana Mufti Nadeem, Abdur Rehman and Gulzar Ansari, based o analysis, a police officer said. Notices will be sent to social media intermediaries for details, he added.