New Delhi, January 10, 2023 (PPI-OT):Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute former vice president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets on the Indian Army. Officials at the Delhi L-G office told the media that the sanction is related to an FIR registered against her in 2019 at the Special Cell police station on the basis of a complaint by an advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava.

They said the sanction has been granted under section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which relates to prosecution for offences against the State and for criminal conspiracy to commit such offence. The former JNUSU leader, who hails from Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, is accused of promoting enmity between different groups and indulging in acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony through her tweets, officials said.

The tweets by Shehla, dated 18 August 2019 had said that the Indian Army had entered houses and “tortured” locals in IIOJK. The proposal for prosecution sanction moved by the Delhi Police and supported by the Home Department of the city government had submitted that Shehla tweeted about the Army on 18 August 2019 – ‘Armed Forces are entering houses at night, picking up boys, ransacking houses, deliberately spilling rations on floor, mixing oil with rice, etc.’.

In another tweet, she said, “In Shopian, 04 men were called into the Army camp and interrogated’ (tortured). A mic was kept close to them so that the entire area could hear them scream and be terrorized. This created an environment of fear in the entire area.”

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