“The mob indulged in large-scale rioting, stone-pelting and arson, and in the process destroyed many public and private properties.”
The mob was rioting over India’s new Citizenship Amendment Act, which offers refuge in India for non-Muslim victims of persecution in the neighboring Muslim countries. One might think that rioting and destroying property would not be the best way to make the case for the injustice of this law; the rioters were apparently heedless of the fact that they were actually demonstrating the need for it.
“Delhi Police Slap Sedition Charge Against Sharjeel Imam For Jamia Riots,” PTI, April 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
New Delhi: Delhi police charged former JNU student Sharjeel Imam with sedition before a court here on Saturday, alleging his speech promoted enmity between people that led to riots in the Jamia Millia Islamia University area.
In its supplementary charge sheet, the police said serious riots had broken out in consequence to the protest march organised by Jamia students against the amended citizenship law on December 15 last year.
The mob indulged in large-scale rioting, stone-pelting and arson, and in the process destroyed many public and private properties. Cases of rioting, arson and damage to public property were registered in both the police stations. Many policemen and public persons were injured in the riots, the agency told in its final report filed before the chief metropolitan magistrate court.
The cases were registered in New Friends Colony and Jamia Nagar police stations.
In the New Friends Colony case, Imam was arrested for instigating and abetting the Jamia riots, due to his seditious speech delivered on December 13, 2019. During the investigation, on the basis of evidence collected, sections 124 A (sedition) and 153 A IPC (promoting enmity between classes) were invoked in the case,” police said.
The police previously filed a charge sheet against the rioters arrested by the SIT….
Imam was arrested from Bihar’s Jehanabad on January 28. He had been involved in organising protests at Shaheen Bagh but came into limelight after a video showed him making controversial comments before a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University, following which he was booked under sedition charges….