UP STF to take PFI member Rauf Shareef on 5-day remand

Mathura: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) will take Popular Front of India's student wing leader Rauf Shareef on police remand for five days on Thursday.

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Shivaram Tarkar, the government's advocate, said the ADJ one court has granted a 5-day remand to STF from 10 am today.

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"The STF had sought 10-day custody of Shareef, but a UP court granted a 5-day remand from 10 am today till 10 am on February 23," he said. 

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Shareef who is in judicial custody in Mathura jail is one of the accused of creating unrest in UP after the Hathras gangrape incident.

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The PFI member was arrested by Enforcement Directorate on December 12 in Kerala and from there he was brought to UP by STF. (ANI)

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