New Delhi: Former Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani was arrested on Tuesday, on charges of sedition and in connection with the raising anti-India slogans at an event held at a Press Club here. He will be produced before a Delhi court today.

DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal confirmed with media sourced that Geelani was arrested at around 3 am at the Parliament Street police station “under IPC Sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly)”.

The former DU lecturer was summoned to the police station on Monday night where he was detained and questioned for several hours, and later arrested.

After his arrest, he was taken to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for a medical examination, the DCP said.

At a Press Club event on February 10, in which Geelani was present on the dais along with three other speakers, a group allegedly had shouted slogans hailing Afzal Guru. Taking suo motu cognizance of the matter, the police registered a case against Geelani and other unnamed persons on February 12.

The police has claimed that he was booked as he was presumed to be the “main organiser” of the event.

“Request for booking a hall at the Press Club was done through Geelani’s e-mail and the nature of the event was proposed to be a public meeting, which did not turn out to be so,” a senior official had said.

Following the registration of the FIR, the police questioned for two consecutive days DU professor Ali Javed, a Press Club member, under whose membership number the hall for the event was booked.

In 2001, Geelani was arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the Parliament attack case but acquitted for “need of evidence” by the Delhi High Court in October 2003, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in August 2005, which at the same time had observed that the needle of suspicion pointed towards him.