J&K man booked for sedition in Chhattisgarh held in MP

A 27-year-old MBA graduate from Jammu and Kashmir, who was booked for sedition by Chhattisgarh police recently for allegedly making anti-national posts on social media, has been arrested from a Jammu-bound train in Sagar district.

Tausif Ahmad, a native of Baramulla district working with a cellphone company in Durg, Chhattisgarh, was arrested on board Durg-Jammu Tawi Express train on Tuesday late night at Sagar railway station, superintendent of police Sachin Atulkar said.

Ahmad was handed over to a Durg police team on Wednesday afternoon.

Sagar city SP Gautam Solanki led the team which caught the Baramulla native sleeping in one of coaches of the train at Sagar railway station and arrested him after ascertaining his identity.

Sources who formed part of the police team said a laptop, two hard discs, 10-15 SIM cards and six six cell-phones were seized from Ahmad, who was fleeing to Jammu and Kashmir. The seized material was handed over to Bhilai police the next day.

Ahmad was recently booked under Section 124A of IPC (sedition) for allegedly posting anti-national content on Facebook, sources in Sagar police said, adding that he had fled from Bhilai soon after Chhattisgarh police booked him for sedition.