The Delhi Police has chargesheeted Sharjeel Imam for giving seditious speech and abetting riots in Southeast Delhi's Jamia last year.
Imam was arrested for instigating and abetting the Jamia riots, due to his seditious speech delivered on December 13.
According to a senior police official, on December 15, 2019, serious riots had broken out in consequence to the protest march organised by Jamia students against Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) in the area of New Friends Colony and Jamia.
"The mob indulged in large scale rioting, stone pelting and arson, and in the process destroyed many public and private properties. Cases of rioting, arson and damage to public properties were registered in both the police stations. Many policemen and public persons were injured in the riots. A case under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at New friends Colony police station," said the senior police official.
"Shargil Immam was arrested for instigating and abetting the Jamia riots, due to his seditious speech delivered on December 13. During investigation, on the basis of evidences collected, sections 124 A IPC and 153 A IPC ( Sedition and promoting enemity between classes) were invoked in the case. In this case first chargesheet was filed against the rioters," he said.
Imam was arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad on January 28. He came into limelight after a video showed him making controversial comments before a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University, following which he was booked under sedition charges.
Police in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh had also lodged FIRs against the JNU scholar over his speech in which he threatened to "cut off" Assam and the rest of the northeast from the country.
"A supplementary chargesheet in continuation of the earlier chargesheet has now been filed in the Saket court," said the senior police official adding that further investigation is going on.