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These allegations were based on the accounts of those individuals who left Kashmir after the lockout in the valley after the cancellation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. The Delhi Police had registered a case of treason against Rashid in September 2019 based on the complaint of Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava.
A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the police to withdraw the case against the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumni leader Shehla Rashid in the 2019 treason case regarding the Indian Army. Rashid faced legal action on a series of tweets posted on August 18, 2019, alleging that army personnel harassed four people in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, put a microphone next to them “so that the whole area could hear and terrorize their screams.”
These allegations were based on the accounts of those individuals who left Kashmir after the lockout in the valley after the cancellation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. The Delhi Police had registered a case of treason against Rashid in September 2019 based on the complaint of Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava. News agency ANI reported that the case was registered on charges of “promoting enmity between various groups” and “adverse tasks to maintain harmony”.
The Indian Army strongly denied Rashid’s claims and described him as baseless and unmatched. The Lieutenant Governor’s Office of Delhi had said that the purpose of his tweet was to create religious differences in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2023, after a proposal sent by Delhi Police and supported by the Home Department, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena approved a prosecution against Rashid. The Home Department had argued that “the nature of the case, the place mentioned in the tweet, and making false allegations against the army makes it a serious issue.” The department also claimed that Rashid’s remarks need to be prosecuted under Section 153A of the Indian Justice Code (formerly IPC), which relates to crimes against public system.
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