New Delhi: Shehla Rashid, a former vice president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students union and a participant in the All India Students Association (AISA), has been sanctioned for prosecution as a result of her anti-Army tweets by the lieutenant governor of Delhi, VK Saxena.
“Delhi LG VK Saxena grants prosecution sanction against Shehla Rashid, ex-Vice President of JNUSU & member of AISA, for making 2 tweets about the Indian Army aimed at promoting enmity between different groups & indulging in acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony,” the office of the Delhi L-G stated in a statement.
The punishment relates to an IPC section 153A FIR against her that was filed in 2019 at the Special Cell police station in New Delhi as a result of a complaint from Alakh Alok Srivastava.
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Allegations on Shehla Rashid
Shehla Rashid was accused of making false statements in her tweets about the military “entering households” and “picking up lads” in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Armed Forces are entering houses at night, picking up boys, ransacking houses, deliberately spilling rations on floor, mixing oil with rice, etc. ” stated one of her tweets. In August 2019, she tweeted this.
According to another tweet, “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.”
Later, the Indian Army rejected the accusations as unfounded.
The Delhi Police proposed the prosecution sanction, and the Delhi government’s Home Department supported it.
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