[New Delhi]Geelani Of Delhi University Arrested For Sedition. He is Former Lecturer Of DU
In 2001 He Was Acquitted for Need of Evidence
SAR Geelani was arrested today on sedition charge in connection with JNU Issue ,
As per DCP (New Delhi) Jatin .”Geelani was arrested around 3 AM at the Parliament Street police station under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly),”
Geelani was called to the police station last night where he was detained and questioned for several hours, and later arrested. After his arrest, he was taken to RML Hospital for a medical examination
His arrest comes amid the raging row over the arrest of JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar over sedition charges in connection with an event on February 9 against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
At a Press Club event on February 10, in which Geelani was present on the dais along with three other speakers, a group allegedly had shouted slogans hailing Afzal Guru. Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, the police registered a case against Geelani and other unnamed persons on February 12.
Police claims Geelani Main Organiser of the event.
“Request for booking a hall at the Press Club was done through Geelani’s e-mail and the nature of the event was proposed to be a public meeting,
Following the registration of the FIR, the police questioned for two consecutive days DU professor Ali Javed, a Press Club member, under whose membership number the hall for the event was booked.
In 2001, Geelani was arrested by Delhi Police in connection with the Parliament attack case but acquitted for “need of evidence” by the Delhi High Court in October 2003, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in August 2005, which at the same time had observed that the needle of suspicion pointed towards him.
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Geelani Of Delhi University Arrested For Sedition: JNU Hoopla
Press Club Expels Its Member Ali Javed In Afzal Guru Incident
[New Delhi]Press Club Expels Its Member Ali Javed In Afzal Guru Incident
The Press Club of India today expelled its member Ali Javed, He booked PCI conference hall where slogans were raised hailing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru This function was attended by former Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani.
Geelani was booked on sedition charges in connection with the December 10 incident.The Press Club of India (PCI) has also constituted a three-member committee to review the booking policy and rules of its hall to ensure that such incident do not happen again.
The PCI also distanced itself from the event on Guru on its premises and clarified that it was in no way responsible for the incident.
PCI had yesterday yesterday issued a show-cause notice to the DU Professor, who had booked the conference hall for the event on Wednesday.
Javed, however, had distanced himself from the event, saying he does not “approve” of the sloganeering and that in any case he “was not one of the organisers”.
The action against Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, comes even as Delhi Police yesterday registered a case of sedition in connection with a Tuesday event at JNU campus here against the hanging of Guru following complaints by BJP MP Maheish Girri and ABVP.
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