Supreme Court lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, filed a complaint with Delhi Police against activist Shehla Rashid, leader of Jammu & Kashmir People's Movement, for allegedly spreading fake news against the Indian Army. Police said they are verifying the facts and investigating the matter.
In a letter to the Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik, the lawyer said that Jawaharlal Nehru University's Ph.D scholar Shehla Rashid should be booked for deliberately spreading fake news with intent to incite violence and malign the army's image in Jammu and Kashmir.
Confirming about the letter, Anil Mittal, Public Relation Officer (PRO), Delhi Police said the complaint has been forwarded to special cell of Delhi police who are now verifying the facts mentioned in complaint.
The complaint against Rashid was filed after she posted a series of tweets on Sunday, claiming that in Kashmir, armed forces are entering house during night, picking up boys, ransacking houses, deliberately spilling rations on the floor and mixing oil with rice.
Rashid in a series of tweet also claimed that she got to know about it from the people coming from Kashmir.
"In Shopian, 4 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," Rashid had tweeted.
Srivastava said the allegations made by Shehla are absolutely false, baseless and concocted, which is evident from the fact that she has not produced any voice recording of the alleged torture or name, date, time or any other specific information about the aforesaid alleged incident.