Political Activist Shehla Rashid Booked for Sedition Over Tweets on Kashmir

J&K, September 6, 2019:

Shehla Rashid, a political activist from Kashmir, has been booked for sedition due to her controversial remarks on the situation in Kashmir.

A Special cell of the Delhi Police has lodged a case against Rashid for her remarks on the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370, which granted special privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

The FIR against Shehla Rashid has been registered under Sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion), 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intention to cause riot), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 505 (spreading rumours) of the Indian Penal Code for her remarks on the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Shehla Rashid had claimed that Indian army personnel were torturing the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of abrogation of Article 370.

She has also claimed that Army jawans have abused human rights in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.

Meanwhile, the Indian Army has rubbished her claims and Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava has even filed a criminal complaint against Shehla. He has also called for her arrest for 'spreading fake news against the Indian Army and Government of India.'

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