Delhi Police withdraws sedition case against Shehla Rashid – India Legal

Delhi’s Patiala Home court docket on February 27 allowed the plea by Delhi police to shut a 2019 sedition case in opposition to former Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) pupil chief Shehla Rashid.

The order was handed by Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Anuj Kumar Singh of Patiala Home Courts on February 27.

The Delhi Police had filed a petition within the court docket in search of permission to withdraw the 2019 case. The appliance famous that Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, who had earlier granted sanction to prosecute Rashid, has now withdrawn it.

As per the appliance, the case was examined by the Screening Committee and positioned earlier than the Authorities of NCT of Delhi for consideration. The Delhi Lieutenant Governor accepted the advice of the Screening Committee as regards FIR No. 0152/2019 PS Particular Cell, Delhi for withdrawal from prosecution underneath Part 196 CrPC.

The Delhi Police had registered a First Data Report (FIR) in opposition to Rashid primarily based on a grievance over her tweets concerning the scenario in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava had filed a grievance with the Delhi Police Particular Cell, following which an FIR was registered for sedition and different offences underneath the Indian Penal Code

Rashid had claimed in her tweets that the armed forces have been torturing civilians and ransacking homes in Jammu & Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.

In September 2019, an Extra Classes Courtroom in Delhi had granted Rashid interim safety from arrest.