March 1st 2025.
A recent development in New Delhi has revealed that a court has given permission to the Delhi police to withdraw a case of sedition filed in 2019 against former vice president of JNUSU, Shehla Rashid Shora. This was in response to her tweets regarding the Army, as confirmed by police sources.
On February 27, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh made the decision after a request from the prosecution. They claimed that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, VK Saxena, had withdrawn his sanction to prosecute Shora. The case was originally filed for various offences, including sedition, promoting enmity, and inciting riots, with a potential punishment of life imprisonment.
The application stated that the LG's order came after a recommendation from a Screening Committee. "Lt. Governor, Delhi has approved the recommendation of the Screening Committee," the application stated. This approval was granted on December 23, 2024.
The FIR against Shora was initially filed in 2019 at the Special Cell police station in New Delhi, following a complaint by a person named Alakh Alok Srivastava. Shora, a former leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, was accused of promoting enmity and indulging in acts that could harm harmony through her tweets.
The proposal for prosecution sanction was put forth by the Delhi Police and received support from the Home Department of the Delhi government, as confirmed by the L-G office. Shora's tweets, dated August 18, 2019, were allegedly about the Army entering houses and torturing locals in Kashmir. These allegations were later dismissed by the Army as baseless.
In conclusion, the court's decision to allow the withdrawal of the case against Shora, following the Lieutenant Governor's withdrawal of prosecution sanctions, marks a significant turn of events in this case.
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