{"id":58701,"date":"2020-01-29T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58701"},"modified":"2020-01-29T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:43:01","slug":"jnu-student-sharjeel-imam-arrested-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jnu-student-sharjeel-imam-arrested-in-bihar","title":{"rendered":"JNU student Sharjeel Imam arrested in Bihar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JNU student Sharjeel Imam, who is accused of sedition arrested by Delhi Police in Bihar&#8217;s Jehanabad; Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar says right to protest is fine but challenge to unity of India is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jnu-student-sharjeel-imam-arrested-in-bihar\/jnu-student-sharjeel-imam\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?fit=680%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"680,510\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JNU student Sharjeel Imam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/JNU-student-Sharjeel-Imam.jpg?resize=133%2C100&amp;ssl=1 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam, on the run after sedition charges were slapped against him for allegedly making inflammatory speeches, was on Tuesday arrested from Bihar&#8217;s Jehanabad district where a court handed him over to a Delhi police team on transit remand.\u00a0The JNU scholar was wanted by police of several states, for alleged inflammatory speeches made during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, after a video of his purported speech went viral on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JNU student Sharjeel Imam, who is accused of sedition arrested by Delhi Police in Bihar&#8217;s Jehanabad; Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar says right to protest is fine but challenge to unity of India is unacceptable. 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