Instigating hate speech, Gujarat Police arrests Shahid Badr; former SIMI chief in Azamgarh

News Bharati    06-Sep-2019
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New Delhi, September 6: Instigating people for communal violence and preaching hate speech, Shahid Badr, the former chief of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was at the radar of police. However, the Gujarat Police arrested Shahid Badr on late Thursday night in connection with a hate speech case registered against him in Kutch district of Gujarat 18 years ago.

 

Arresting Shahid, Gujarat police inspector YP Sadeja said the case was registered against him under Sections 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 143 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code in a police station at Kutch in 2001. It was in connection for delivering an inflammatory speech.

A court issued an arrest warrant against him in 2012 in connection with the case but he could not be arrested at the time as his address was not known, police officer Sadeja said.

After the address was confirmed, a four-member police team led by Sadeja reached Azamgarh and arrested Shahid Badr from his residence near Karbala Maidan and brought him to the Kotwali police station on Thursday night, he said. Sadeja said he would seek transit remand from a court on Friday and take Shahid Badr to Gujarat.