NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala House Court has accepted the Delhi Police’s application to withdraw a case against former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid Shora over her 2019 tweets alleging human rights violations by the Indian Army in Kashmir.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order on February 27, following a request from the prosecution, which stated that Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena had withdrawn his sanction to prosecute Rashid.
The case was registered under IPC Section 153A based on a complaint by advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava. Rashid’s tweets, posted on August 18, 2019, alleged that the Armed Forces were entering homes at night, detaining boys, ransacking houses, and mixing oil with food supplies. In another tweet, she claimed that four men were taken to an Army camp in Shopian and tortured, with their screams amplified to instill fear in the region.
The Indian Army had dismissed her allegations as baseless, and Rashid was accused of promoting enmity between groups and disturbing communal harmony.
With the Lieutenant Governor’s withdrawal of prosecution sanction, the Delhi Police sought to close the case, leading to the court’s approval.
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