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Ujjain, Aug 23 (PTI): The stringent National Security Act (NSA) was invoked against a 21-year-old man arrested for allegedly writing anti-India slogans and posting a “pro-Pakistan” photo on his social networking account in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh after a complaint was lodged by a Bajrang Dal leader, police said today.
\nSahil Lalla was arrested yesterday for writing anti-India slogans and posting his photo on his Instagram page clad in a T-shirt with the Pakistani flag and the word “Jordan” written on it, an officer said.<\/p>\n
Ujjain Superintendent of Police Satyendra Shukla said Lalla was arrested within two hours after he put up the post around 7 pm on Sunday. The NSA was invoked against him the same day, he added.<\/p>\n
“District Convener of right-wing Bajrang Dal, Pintu Kaushal, had lodged a complaint about the matter with the Chimanganj police. Acting on that complaint, police arrested Sahil Lalla and recommended invoking the NSA against him,” Mr Shukla said.<\/p>\n
Lalla was also booked on charges of trying to disturb communal harmony and posing law and order problems.<\/p>\n
On the recommendation of the police, the district collector clears ways for invoking the NSA, police sources said, explaining the procedure.<\/p>\n
Notably, the Ujjain district administration yesterday invoked the NSA against four persons out of ten arrested so far for allegedly raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans during a Muharram event on August 19.<\/p>\n
More than a dozen people had been booked for the sloganeering and charged with sedition under sections 124 (a), and 153 (provocation which can cause riot) of the Indian Penal Code.<\/p>\n
The National Security Act empowers the government to detain a person for months if authorities are satisfied that he\/she is a threat to national security or to prevent him\/her from disrupting public order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ujjain, Aug 23 (PTI): The stringent National Security Act (NSA) was invoked against a 21-year-old man arrested for allegedly writing anti-India slogans and posting a “pro-Pakistan” photo on his social networking account in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh after a complaint was lodged by a Bajrang Dal leader, police said today. Sahil Lalla was arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}