India, March 2 -- A city court has allowed Delhi Police to withdraw a 2019 case of sedition against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) vice president Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets on the Army.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order on February 27 on an application moved by the prosecution, which claimed that Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has withdrawn his sanctions to prosecute Shora.
The Delhi Police had registered a sedition case against Rashid in September 2019 based on a complaint by Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava. The case was lodged under charges of "promoting enmity between different groups" and "acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony. The case was ...