A 25-YEAR-OLD businessman in Bisauli area of Badaun district was arrested on charges of sedition on Sunday. A native of Sambhal district, Raja Khan alias Babloo has been accused of posting the message ‘I support Pakistan’ along with the photograph of a Pakistani flag on Facebook. Khan, who has been running a glass shop in Pathantola locality of Bisauli for the last four months, was arrested from his shop on Sunday. He was produced before the court, which sent him to jail.

Police are collecting details of the 20 people who had liked his post and six others who had commented on it. Khan’s cellphone has been seized and is being sent to experts so that its records could be retrieved, said police. “Some locals informed us two days ago that Raja Khan had posted the message ‘I support Pakistan’, along with the Pakistani flag, on his Facebook account. We checked the account and found that the message had been posted on July 22. An FIR was lodged against Raja Khan on Sunday by Sub-Inspector Surendra Singh under section 124-A (sedition) of the IPC and Information Technology Act,” Bisauli police Station Officer Rajesh Kashyap said.