The Dehradun Police have lodged an FIR against student activist and former leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union leader Shehla Rashid on the basis of a complaint filed by a local resident, for allegedly trying to incite “a community to commit offence, indulging in wanton vilification and provoking someone to breach peace” in the wake of Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on 14 February.
At least 40 jawans were killed in the terror attack when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Rashid allegedly spread rumours and was accused of creating panic among the minorities with a tweet on Saturday where she wrote “15-20 Kashmiri girls trapped in a hostel in Dehradun for hours now, as an angry mob outside demands that they be expelled from the hostels…”
But the police has claimed that after 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 were safe in Dehradun.
Nivedita Kukreti, senior Superintendent of Police told the media that she has been booked under sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (disturbing public tranquility) and 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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