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Updated: April 21, 2020 10:29:41 pm
Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid.
Delhi police have booked students of Jamia Meeran Haider and Safoora Zargar under the Illegal Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in a case related to community violence in Northeast Delhi by the Citizenship Act (Amendment ) said a lawyer.
Haider and Zargar, arrested for allegedly plotting a conspiracy to incite community unrest in February, are in judicial custody. While Zargar is the media coordinator for the Jamia Coordination Committee, Haider is a member of the committee.
Police have also booked Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid under UAPA in the case, said attorney Akram Khan, who represents Haider in the case.
Haider (35) is a PhD student and president of the Delhi unit of the youth wing RJD, while Zargar is an MPhil student at Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI).
In FIR, police have claimed that the community violence was a “premeditated conspiracy” that was allegedly hatched by Khalid and two others.
The students have also been reserved for the crimes of sedition, murder, attempted murder, promotion of enmity between different groups for reasons of religion and riots.
Read | Arrests in cases of violence in Jamia and riots in northeast Delhi made after analysis of forensic evidence: Police
Khalid allegedly delivered provocative speeches in two different locations and called on citizens to take to the streets and block the roads during the visit of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to spread propaganda internationally about how minorities are in India. , alleged the FIR.
In this conspiracy, firearms, gasoline pumps, acid bottles, and stones were collected from numerous houses, FIR said.
Police accused Danish, a co-defendant, of bringing people from two different places together to participate in the riots.
Women and children were forced to block the roads below the Jafrabad metro station on February 23 to create tension in the midst of people in the neighborhood, he said.
More than 20 movie personalities, including Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Mahesh Bhatt and Ratna Pathak Shah, released a statement on Sunday against the arrest of students and activists by Delhi police for protesting the Law. of Citizenship (Amendment) and demanded Its launch.
Following this, the police had said that investigations into JMI’s violence and riots in northeast Delhi were conducted impartially, and arrests were made after analysis of forensic evidence.
In December last year, police had allegedly entered the JMI campus after protests by the CAA, held a few meters from the university team, turned violent.
Rajya Sabha MP and RJD leader Manoj Jha tweeted: “Delhi police called him to investigate and then received orders from above and arrested Meeran Haider, who has been helping people during the coronavirus outbreak.” .
The Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), a group of university students and alumni, had condemned the arrest and demanded his immediate release.
“The country faces a massive health crisis, yet the state machinery is busy harassing and framing student activists in bogus cases to suppress voices of dissent,” they said.
The JCC said Haider was working diligently to provide ration to those in need during the shutdown. Community clashes erupted in northeast Delhi on February 24 after violence between supporters of the citizenship law and protesters went haywire, leaving at least 53 people dead and around 200 injured.
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