The Delhi Police booked?Sharjeel?Imam, an activistwho came in limelight during the ongoing protest in Shaheen Bagh, on Sunday forallegedly delivering inflammatory speeches against the amended Citizenship Actand the planned National Register of Citizens, officials said.
According to the police, Imam, a resident of Bihar andformer Jawaharlal Nehru University student, delivered "very inflammatoryand instigating speeches in his opposition to CAA and NRC".
"He had previously delivered one such speech in JamiaMillia Islamia on December 13 last year and thereafter one even moreinflammatory against the government which is being widely circulated on socialmedia," they said.
These speeches have the "potential to harm thereligious harmony" and the unity and integrity of India, for which the casewas registered against him, police said.
Two teams of the Uttar Pradesh police from Aligarh have beenset up to arrest?Sharjeel?Imam, one of the organisers of the anti-CAAprotest in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, informed sources told IANS.
Imam is a former student of the Jawaharlal Nehru Universityand is one of the organisers of the Shaheen Bagh protests led by women.
Imam was heard saying in an audio clip that Assam should becut off from the rest of India and taught a lesson, as Bengalis - both Hindusand Muslims - are being killed or put into detention centres.
He reportedly said that if he can organise five lakh people,it would become possible to "permanently cut off Assam with rest ofIndia...if not permanently, then at least for a few months".
Meanwhile, a Twitter account that claims to be the officialhandle of?the Shaheen Bagh protesters?has responded to theallegations, distancing itself from the alleged comments and saying theagitation "protect (the) constitutional morality of this nation (and) noone individual's videos, statements or articles can represent themovement".
A case against Imam under IPC sections 124 A (an offence bywords, either spoken or written causes disaffection against Governmentestablished by law), 153 A (promoting enmity between different religious groupswith an intent to create disharmony) and 505 (statements conducing to publicmischief) has been registered, the Delhi police said.
A case of sedition was lodged against Imam on Saturday for aspeech he delivered on the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus on January16. The Assam police has also filed an FIR under the anti-terror law UAPAagainst Imam for his speech.?