BENGALURU: Padarayanapura corporator
Imran Pasha reportedly told police on Saturday that he neither invited
Amulya Leona Noronha
to Thursday's anti-CAA event at Freedom Park nor did he ask her to address the gathering.
Pasha was one of the organisers of the event, where 19-year-old Amulya allegedly raised a pro-Pakistan slogan. She could not complete her remarks on the stage as the microphone was taken away from her after that chant. She was later detained and booked for sedition; she is in judicial custody.
Officers investigating the case interviewed Pasha for nearly two hours on Saturday. Deputy police commissioner (west) Ramesh Banoth conducted the session, during which the corporator's statement was recorded.
While Pasha denied any involvement in Amulya's presence, police recovered a pamphlet which was distributed days before the event and which lists Amulya as one of the speakers. Pasha said didn't know anything about the pamphlet.
Police have accessed a video in which Amulya purportedly says that a back-end team chalked out the talking points for her. They are questioning some friends and activists associated with her. A police team is also travelling to Amulya's native place, Shivapura village in
Chikkamagaluru district
, to make enquiries.
Top cop Bhaskar Rao has asked colleges to "keep an eye on students attending protests".
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