FAIZAN KHAN faizan. khan@ mid- day. com THE media and culture student from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences ( TISS), Urvashi Chudawala, who was booked under sedition charges for sloganeering in support of Sharjeel Imam ( he was recently held for sedition), is untraceable. On Tuesday, her mother told the Azad Maidan police that she was being provoked by someone, and even the family is looking for her.
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u201c Before registering the FIR we reached out to the TISS management and collected her details as she is a student there for the past one year. We were informed by the management that she has not been coming to the campus for the past two days. We had called her to record her statement and listen to her version, but she didnu2019t respond to calls and after sometime her number was switched off. Later her mother was summoned,u201d a senior police officer told mid- day.
She told the cops that she is also trying to contact Chudawala and didnu2019t know why she raised such slogans.
I will ask her to cooperate with the police,u201d Chudawalau2019s mother told the media while leaving Azad Maidan police station.
According to police, they have verified the video in which Chudawala is seen saying, u2018 Sharjeel tere sapnon ko manzil tak pahuchayenge.u2019 u201c We took legal opinion and then reached out to her. But she wasnu2019t available for comment. A case of sedition was registered against her and now four teams are looking for her,u201d the officer said.
Posts under scanner u201c Apart from the sloganeering, there are a number of social media posts by her supporting Imam, which have also been considered before registering a FIR against her,u201d the officer added.
The u00a2 . others seen in the video are yet to be identified. The police have appealed to people to reach out to them regarding their identity.
According to the police, Chudawala last contacted her mother and said that she was with some of her friends and then switched off her phone. u201c We suspect that she has been kept hidden by some of her friends,u201d another police officer said.
Student- activist slapped with sedition charge untraceable Her mother claims Urvashi Chudawala has been u2018 provokedu2019 and that they are also looking for her ( Below) mid- dayu2019s report on the sedition charge, on Tuesday. Urvashiu2019s mother Reena Chudawala at the Azad Maidan police station. PIC/ SURESH KARKERA
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