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JNU student Sharjeel Imam arrested in Bihar

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JNU student Sharjeel Imam, who is accused of sedition arrested by Delhi Police in Bihar’s Jehanabad; Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar says right to protest is fine but challenge to unity of India is unacceptable.

Anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam, on the run after sedition charges were slapped against him for allegedly making inflammatory speeches, was on Tuesday arrested from Bihar’s Jehanabad district where a court handed him over to a Delhi police team on transit remand. The JNU scholar was wanted by police of several states, for alleged inflammatory speeches made during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, after a video of his purported speech went viral on social media.

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