Ukhand Police books JNU studentsrsquo leader Shehla Rashid for lsquospreading rumoursrsquo

  • | Monday | 18th February, 2019

Rashid tweeted a picture of the FIR with a caption, "The price you pay for seeking justice under a BJP govt".Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti told TOI, “We received a complaint against her, following which an FIR has been registered. Even senior officials met the girls on Sunday to tell them that they are safe,” said SP (city) Shweta Choubey.Rashid, then vice-president of JNU students’ union, had led the students’ agitation calling for the release of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 following alleged anti-India slogans. Through her tweets, she tried to spread rumours and create panic among people about an incident in Dehradun on February 16.”“In her tweet, Rashid claimed that Kashmiri girls were ‘trapped’ for hours and mobs outside were ‘baying for their blood’, both of which were factually incorrect and aimed at disturbing peace in the area,” the SSP added.In two of her tweets, Rashid had written, “15-20 Kashmiri girls trapped in a hostel in Dehradun for hours now… mobs outside are baying for their blood. Dehradun: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) research scholar and activist Shehla Rashid has been booked by Uttarakhand Police for “spreading rumours and creating panic” by tweeting about “alleged harassment of 20 Kashmiri students by locals and right-wing activists” on February 16.On the basis of a complaint filed by a local resident, Dehradun police has registered an FIR against her under sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (1) (b) (disturbing public tranquility) and 153b (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police is present but unable to disperse the mob.”TOI had reported that the girls living in a hostel in Suddhowala were forced to lock themselves in their hostel room for hours on February 16 after a group of over 500 locals and right-wing members surrounded the premises alleging that they had raised pro-Pakistan slogans.“Upon receiving information about the presence of a crowd outside the hostel, a police team reached the spot and managed to diffuse the situation.

Dehradun: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) research scholar and activist Shehla Rashid has been booked by Uttarakhand Police for “spreading rumours and creating panic” by tweeting about “alleged harassment of 20 Kashmiri students by locals and right-wing activists” on February 16.On the basis of a complaint filed by a local resident, Dehradun police has registered an FIR against her under sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (1) (b) (disturbing public tranquility) and 153b (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Rashid tweeted a picture of the FIR with a caption, "The price you pay for seeking justice under a BJP govt".Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti told TOI, “We received a complaint against her, following which an FIR has been registered. Through her tweets, she tried to spread rumours and create panic among people about an incident in Dehradun on February 16.”“In her tweet, Rashid claimed that Kashmiri girls were ‘trapped’ for hours and mobs outside were ‘baying for their blood’, both of which were factually incorrect and aimed at disturbing peace in the area,” the SSP added.In two of her tweets, Rashid had written, “15-20 Kashmiri girls trapped in a hostel in Dehradun for hours now… mobs outside are baying for their blood. Police is present but unable to disperse the mob.”TOI had reported that the girls living in a hostel in Suddhowala were forced to lock themselves in their hostel room for hours on February 16 after a group of over 500 locals and right-wing members surrounded the premises alleging that they had raised pro-Pakistan slogans.“Upon receiving information about the presence of a crowd outside the hostel, a police team reached the spot and managed to diffuse the situation. Even senior officials met the girls on Sunday to tell them that they are safe,” said SP (city) Shweta Choubey.Rashid, then vice-president of JNU students’ union, had led the students’ agitation calling for the release of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 following alleged anti-India slogans.

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