Guwahati court sent Sharjeel Imam to four days police custody
Guwahati/IBNS: The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Guwahati on Monday sent Sharjeel Imam to four days police custody.
Earlier on Feb 20, the court sent him to four days police custody.
On Monday, the Guwahati city police had produced him before the court after ended of his earlier custody.
Sharjeel Imam was also taken to a hospital for medical check-up.
Guwahati city police Commissioner Munna Prasad Gupta said the court has sent him to four days police custody.
On February 20, a team of Assam police had brought Sharjeel Imam – one of the key organizers of Shaheen Bagh protests in New Delhi who allegedly raised ‘cut-off-Assam’ slogans, to Guwahati from Delhi via Dibrugarh bound Brahmaputra mail.
The Assam police had taken him to Guwahati with tight security.
Former JNU student Sharjeel was handed over to an Assam police team earlier on February 19 by the Patiala House Court.
Delhi police had arrested Imam in Bihar on January 28 and following his controversial remark, Assam police had also registered a case against the JNU scholar.
The Guwahati city police crime branch had registered a case (case no 1/2020) against Sharjeel Imam under sections of 13(1)/18 of UAPA and 153 (A), 153 (B), 124 of IPC.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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