West Bengal man arrested in Mumbai for ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ FB post
A man from West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district was arrested in Mumbai for allegedly supporting Pakistan on social media, police officials said on Saturday.
The Purba Bardhaman police identified the man as Sarif Sheikh and said that he hails from Danihat. A Purba Bardhaman police team has now left for Mumbai to take Sheikh into custody and get him back.
“Sedition, instigation and other charges have been slapped against him. A team of Purba Bardhaman police will take him in transit remand and bring him here soon. We, however, have placed security at his residence so that nobody can hurt his parents,” a senior official of the Purba Bardhaman district police said.
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