Guwahati: A local court in Guwahati on Tuesday jailed a student a day after the Sivasagar police arrested him for making "objectionable" remarks against the government in social media which has gone viral.
Identified as Deepjyoti Gogoi, a police team led by SP Amitabh Sinha picked up the Gauhati University student and rushed him to Guwahati where CID criminal branch arrested him under a few Sections.
Then he was produced before a local court in the afternoon which sent him to the Guwahati Central Jail.
Gogoi was under the scanner after he took lead in a number of anti CAA protests in the city last year.
Very recently he recited a poem in YouTube against the government written by one of his friends and shared a government appeal seeking peoples' support and assistant in the time of flood.
Many parties, organizations and individuals have strongly criticized the arrest of the student and threaten to launch agitation to register the protest.
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