NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala House court accepted Delhi Police’s application to withdraw a case against ex-JNU student leader Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets accusing the Indian Army of entering houses and “torturing” locals in Kashmir.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order on February 27 on an application moved by the prosecution, which claimed that Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has withdrawn his sanction to prosecute Shora.
An FIR was registered against Rashid under IPC section 153A at special cell police station h on the basis of a complaint by an advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava.
The proposal for prosecution sanction moved by the Delhi Police and supported by the Home Department of the city government had submitted that Shora tweeted about the Army on August 18, 2019 — ‘Armed Forces are entering houses at night, picking up boys, ransacking houses, deliberately spilling rations on floor, mixing oil with rice, etc’.
In another tweet, she had said, “In Shopian, 04 men were called into the Army Camp and ‘interrogated’ (tortured). A mic was kept close to them so that the entire area could hear them scream and be terrorized. This created an environment of fear in the entire area.”
The former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) leader was accused of promoting enmity between different groups and indulging in acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony through her tweets.
The allegations were rejected by the Army as baseless.