New Delhi, Feb 19: First Investigation Report (FIR) was filed against student leader Shehla Rashid on Monday after she tweeted information about Kashmiri girls in Dehradun that the police said was false.
On Saturday -- February 16 -- Shehla Rashid wrote in a tweet that between 15 and 20 Kashmiri girls were trapped in a Dehradun hostel for hours, and that an angry mob was demanding they be expelled. She said the police were unable to disperse the mob.
She posted this tweet a couple of days after the suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 jawans were martyred.
The Uttarakhand Police dismissed Rashid's alert as a rumour, and said the police sorted things out. "There are no crowds," the state police said in a Twitter message on Saturday. "Initially, there was some confusion regarding slogans by Kashmiri girls in favour of Pakistan, which was resolved."
The FIR against Shehla Rashid was registered under several sections of the IPC, including 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), SSP Nivedita Kukreti told ANI.
Shehla Rashid tweeted pictures of the FIR, saying, "The price you pay for seeking justice under a BJP government".
She said the Uttarakhand Police had filed an FIR against her but was yet to take action "against Vikas Verma, Bajrang Dal convenor, who is speaking to national newspapers, owning up to the mob attacks, ordering Kashmiris to leave Dehradun. Can't say who rules Uttarakhand anymore!"
Several Kashmiri students from different cities have been slapped with sedition charges for allegedly supporting the terrorist attack in Pulwama.
Two Dehradun colleges -- Alpine College of Management and Technology, and the Baba Farid Institute of Technology -- have decided not to admit any Kashmiri students from the upcoming academic session. Top officials from these colleges confirmed this in letters shared with student unions demanding the expulsion of all Kashmiri students following the attack.
Some Kashmiri youths in Dehradun alleged that their landlords asked them to vacate their homes, fearing attacks on their properties in the aftermath of the attack in Pulwama.
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