[image: Shehla Rashid booked for sedition over false allegations againstArmy]
SRINAGAR – Kashmiri leader Shehla Rashid to be arrested after being termedas traitor for exposing Indian Army brutalities in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
The Delhi Police on Friday filed an FIR against Jammu and Kashmir People’sMovement leader and activist Shehla Rashid for levelling false allegationsagainst the Army. Rashid was booked for sedition on a criminal complaint bySupreme Court lawyer Alok Srivastav who had sought the arrest of Rashid.
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police lodged the FIR under sections 124-A,153A,153, 504, 505 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The activist had levelled a series on baseless and fake allegations on thesituation in the state after the abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhilestate of Jammu and Kashmir. The Army has rubbished allegations of torturelevelled by Rashid and in a statement had referred to her charges as”baseless”.
She had claimed that Armed forces were “ransacking” houses of common peoplein Jammu and Kashmir and “picking up boys”. She had alleged that fourpersons were detained by Army personnel and tortured in Shopian. In aseries of tweets, Shehla attributed to “people” as saying the Jammu and KashmirPolice department has no law and order situation.