<p>Amulya Leona Noronha, the fiery teenage activist arrested last week for pro-Pakistan sloganeering, has stuck to her stand that she was mistaken as she wasn’t allowed to complete her speech. </p>.<p>Amulya (19) appeared resolute in her defence on the first day of her 10-day police custody. She posed counter-questions to her interrogators, made fun of the vehicle problem on Tuesday midnight when she was produced before a magistrate and a power cut that occurred on Wednesday morning, police sources said. </p>.<p>The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is interrogating the journalism student to piece together the events that led to her sloganeering at an anti-CAA rally at the Freedom Park on February 21. She is being held in custody at the Basaveshwara Nagar police station.</p>.<p>Investigators are also asking her about her associates who scripted her speeches, as she had disclosed in a television interview. They asked her if she was inspired by slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. Amulya cried at the mention of Gauri’s name, an officer said. </p>.<p>The activist’s relationship with Ardra Narayana, a graphic designer arrested for disrupting a pro-CAA rally, is also being probed. Amulya and Ardra lived as paying guests in northern Bengaluru’s Basaveshwara Nagar for a few months before Ardra moved out. </p>.<p>SIT officers checked her paying guest room and are scouring her laptop, call log and call record.</p>.<p>“We have learnt that she had links with like-minded activists from North India and chatted with them on a mobile phone app,” the officer said, adding that some of her friends were also questioned. </p>
<p>Amulya Leona Noronha, the fiery teenage activist arrested last week for pro-Pakistan sloganeering, has stuck to her stand that she was mistaken as she wasn’t allowed to complete her speech. </p>.<p>Amulya (19) appeared resolute in her defence on the first day of her 10-day police custody. She posed counter-questions to her interrogators, made fun of the vehicle problem on Tuesday midnight when she was produced before a magistrate and a power cut that occurred on Wednesday morning, police sources said. </p>.<p>The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is interrogating the journalism student to piece together the events that led to her sloganeering at an anti-CAA rally at the Freedom Park on February 21. She is being held in custody at the Basaveshwara Nagar police station.</p>.<p>Investigators are also asking her about her associates who scripted her speeches, as she had disclosed in a television interview. They asked her if she was inspired by slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. Amulya cried at the mention of Gauri’s name, an officer said. </p>.<p>The activist’s relationship with Ardra Narayana, a graphic designer arrested for disrupting a pro-CAA rally, is also being probed. Amulya and Ardra lived as paying guests in northern Bengaluru’s Basaveshwara Nagar for a few months before Ardra moved out. </p>.<p>SIT officers checked her paying guest room and are scouring her laptop, call log and call record.</p>.<p>“We have learnt that she had links with like-minded activists from North India and chatted with them on a mobile phone app,” the officer said, adding that some of her friends were also questioned. </p>