India Tomorrow
NEW DELHI, APRIL 2—Meeran Haider, a student of the Jamia Millia Islamia university was arrested by the Delhi Police on Thursday on allegations of “hatching a conspiracy to incite communal riots” in several parts of Delhi.
Haider, is also the head of Chhatra RJD, the Delhi youth wing of jailed politician Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
On Wednesday at 10 am, Haider was called for interrogation by the Special Cell at their Lodhi Colony office and was subsequently arrested, the officials said.
Rajya Sabha MP and RJD leader Manoj Jha tweeted, “Delhi Police called him for investigation and then received orders from above and arrested Meeran Haider, who has been helping people during the time of coronavirus outbreak”.
Chhatra RJD unit of the JNU demanded the release of Haider and said the police should become ‘people-friendly’ and not scare people.
The Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), a collective of the students and the alumni of the Jamia, demanded immediate release of Meeran Haider. “In the past few days since the lockdown, our friend Meeran was diligently working to provide ration to the needy. It is shameful that even in circumstances like these, Muslim voices are being targeted and witch-hunted by the state”, JCC said in a statement.
Jamia Students’ Forum has also demanded his immediate release.
According to the numbers provided by the government, fifty-four people were killed and hundreds were injured in the northeast Delhi after four straight days of violence in the last week of February when US President Donald Trump and his family were on a two-day visit to India.
