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JNU student Sharjeel Imam brought to Assam for interrogation, chief judicial magistrate's court sentences him to four days of police remand
•Imam was brought to the city from New Delhi by train and then taken to a hospital for medical checkup
Nitish Kumar says ‘unnecessary’ columns relating to Aadhaar number, parents’ place of birth in NPR forms causing apprehensions, should be dropped
•Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar urged the Centre to drop the new columns in NPR forms as they are not necessary and are leading to apprehensions in the minds of the people and the exercise be conducted as per the previous pattern
Delhi Police granted transit remand of Sharjeel Imam for 36 hrs after arrest in Bihar's Jehanabad, lawyers say JNU scholar surrendered
Fp Staff •Sharjeel Imam, a PhD student at Jawarharlal Nehru University who has been charged with sedition for his allegedly inflammatory remarks during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), was arrested by the Delhi Police in Bihar's Jehanabad on Tuesday afternoon.
FIRs against Sharjeel Imam justified, anti-CAA activist's call to 'cut-off' Assam tests limits of free speech
Sreemoy Talukdar •While legal eagles claim that Sharjeel Imam did not commit a crime and FIRs against him must be quashed, it is worth remembering that Imam was not issuing a lecture during an academic discussion
Delhi Police arrests Sharjeel Imam from Bihar's Jehanabad on sedition charges for 'cut Assam off' remark
Fp Staff •Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Sharjeel Imam, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student booked in a sedition case, from Bihar's Jehanabad. The PhD student has been booked in sedition cases lodged in five states for alleged "inflammatory" speeches made during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
'My son is not capable of instigating secession,' says mother of missing anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam after police raids at his Bihar home
•The police carried out a raid at the ancestral house of anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam, who has been slapped with a sedition case in the national capital for alleged inflammatory speeches he gave at Shaheen Bagh and the Jamia Milia Islamia
JAP, VIP activists in spotlight as disruption of traffic, vandalism and arson mark Bihar bandh; Left takes out rally in north
•Bihar witnessed disruption of traffic, vandalism and arson on Thursday on account of a state-wide shutdown called by Left parties in protest against Citizenship Amendment Act 2019
Victims and beneficiaries of Bihar prohibition law live cheek by jowl; those who continue liquor trade blame lack of jobs
Umesh Kumar Ray •With the Lok Sabha election approaching, prohibition will, once again, be used as an important poll plank in Bihar.
Largely mixed reactions to Bharat Bandh in East, North East India; vandalism reported in few states, no response in others
•In West Bengal, normal life largely remained unaffected by Bharat Bandh. The ruling TMC had opposed the bandh but organised a rally against spiralling prices of petroleum products
'If we reached early, she'd have been alive': Parents blame Bharat Bandh for 2-year-old's death in Bihar; officials reject claim
Fp Staff •A two-year-old child died on her way to the civic hospital in Bihar's Patna while Bharat Bandh was underway. According to the father of the child, vehicle carrying her got stuck in road blockade by Bharat Bandh supporters on Monday.