Manipur student leader arrested on sedition charge
Guwahati, Feb 15 (IBNS): Police arrested former president of the Manipur Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD) Thokchom Veewon in Delhi on Friday evening.
According to the reports, the Manipur police had arrested Thokchom with the help of Delhi police from his rented home at Saket in South Delhi.
The Manipur police had registered a case against the student leader under sedition charges. Veewon has been vocal against Manipur journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem’s arrest under the National Security Act (NSA) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
According to the sources, the cops had registered a case (no 13(2)/2019) against Thokchom under sedition charges.
Veewon is currently lodged at Janakpuri police station in New Delhi and likely to be taken to Manipur on Saturday.
It is to be mentioned that, Manipur police had earlier arrested Javed mehedi, vice president of MSAD.
Earlier, Thokchom Veewon posted on social media that Manipur police had visited his house, took photographs of his parents and threatened his parents to silence him.
In December last year, Manipur police had arrested 39-year-old Kishorechand Wangkhem, a journalist, under the National Security Act (NSA) following his derogatory comments against the Manipur Chief Minister and the both BJP-led governments at centre and Manipur.
Kishorechand Wangkhem, a journalist working with a local cable network channel had uploaded videos on social media on November 19 last year in both English and Meitei languages and abused the Manipur CM and the BJP-led government at the Centre.
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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