Across five states of the country, sedition cases were filed against Imam. Although, Imam was on the run for 4-5 days, Delhi Cops have arrested him from Bihar. In a controversial remark, Sharjeel Imam had suggested to "cut off Assam" from the mainland India.
Earlier, Imam's brother was also picked up by the police over the anti-CAA protesters who were speaking ill at the AMU protest.
Sharjeel Imam had been involved in organizing the protests at Shaheen Bagh but was actually spotted after a video clip went viral wherein he could be heard making some controversial comments while addressing a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) after which certain sedition charges were put on him.
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He had given an rebellious speech earlier on the Jamia Milia Islamia campus affirmed Delhi Police and lodged an FIR against him in the national capital.
Another case was lodged under the stringent anti-terror law against him in Assam, apprehension of Imams remark that Assam could be "severed from India, even if for a few months" as a result of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Police in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh had also lodged FIRs against the JNU scholar, over his speech in which he threatened to "cut off" Assam and the northeast from the rest of the country.
His mother had appeared before the media and claimed that her son was "not a law-breaker and would surrender to the investigating agencies" and that he had been in favour of "calling off" the agitation at Shaheen Bagh, which has been in news for 24X7 protest, mostly by women.