India, March 2 -- A Delhi court has allowed the Delhi Police to withdraw a 2019 sedition case against former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Shehla Rashid for her controversial social media posts on the Indian Army.

Chief judicial magistrate Anuj Kumar of the Patiala House Court on February 27 allowed the application moved by the Delhi Police Special Cell.

The application moved by the assistant public prosecutor on February 15, under Section 321 of the erstwhile Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows the prosecution to withdraw a particular case against a person, states that the Delhi lieutenant governor (LG) has approved the recommendation of a screening committee which examined the case lodged against Rashid and rec...