Imam charged for ‘instigating’ Jamia violence
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet in the December 15 violence that took place in Jamia Milia Islamia. The police have named JNU student Sharjeel Imam in the chargesheet as an “instigator”. The police filed the chargesheet on February 13.
Imam's name was mentioned in the chargesheet after an accused in the December 15 violence had alleged that he was provoked by Imam's speeches.
No Jamia student has been named in the chargesheet.
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A Delhi court on Tuesday sent Sharjeel Imam, named as an “instigator” by the Delhi police in its chargesheet on violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at New Friends Colony here last year, to judicial custody till March 3.
Imam was arrested on sedition charges last month in a separate case. The police has filed the charge sheet before chief metropolitan magistrate Gurmohina Kaur, naming Imam as an instigator of the violence.
It said it has attached CCTV footage, call detail records, and statements of over 100 witnesses as evidence in the charge sheet.
The court had, on Monday, sent Imam to oneday custody of the Delhi police in the case as it wanted to quiz him because an accused, Furkan, in the December 15, 2019, violence case had alleged in his disclosure statement that he was provoked by Imam’s speeches.
The police had earlier told the court that Furkan was arrested on the basis of a CCTV footage, which showed him carrying a container allegedly containing
petrol.
The Bihar police carried out a raid at the ancestral house of Imam in Jehanabad on Sunday night.
Four people were arrested in the case on December 16 and sent to judicial custody. Furkan was arrested later.
Imam, who came into limelight during the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh here against the CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), was arrested from Bihar’s Jehanabad on January 28 in a separate case for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University here and in Aligarh.
A case had been registered against him on sedition and other charges on January 26. Protestors had torched four public buses and two police vehicles as they clashed with the police in New Friends Colony near JMI during the demonstration against CAA on December 15.
◗ The Bihar police carried out a raid at the ancestral house of Imam in Jehanabad on Sunday night