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Guwahati : Advisor and former president of the Manipur Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD) Thokchom Veewon has been arrested by police in Delhi on Friday evening.
According to the reports, the Manipur police had arrested Thokchom with the help of Delhi police from his rental home at Saket in South Delhi.
The Manipur police had registered a case against the Manipur student leader under sedition charges, who has been vocal against Manipur journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem’s arrest under the National Security Act (NSA) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
According to the sources, Manipur police had registered a case (no 13(2)/2019) against Thokchom under sedition charges.
Thokchom Veewon, has been currently kept at Janakpuri police station in New Delhi and likely to be taken to Manipur on February 16.
It is to be mentioned that, Manipur police had arrested Javed mehedi, vice president of MSAD.
Earlier, Thokchom Veewon posted on social media that, Manipur police visited his house, took photographs of his parents and threatened his parents to silence him.
In December last year, Manipur police had arrested 39-year-old Kishorechand Wangkhem, a Manipur based scribe, under the National Security Act (NSA) following his derogatory comments against the Manipur Chief Minister and the both BJP-led governments at centre and Manipur.
Kishorechand Wangkhem, a journalist of a local cable network channel had uploaded videos on social media on November 19 last year in both English and Meitei languages and using some obscene word against the Manipur CM and the BJP-led government at the centre and in Manipur, was sentenced to a 12-month jail term.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
