Special cell examining complaint filed against Shehla Rashid for controversial tweets on Kashmir

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Aug 19 2019 | 9:25 PM IST

Delhi Police's Special Cell is looking into a complaint filed against Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement leader Shehla Rashid by a Supreme Court lawyer accusing her of "spreading fake news with the intention to malign the image of Indian Army".

In his complaint to Delhi police commissioner Amulya Patnaik on Monday, Alakh Alok Srivastava said the allegations made by the former JNU student leader in her tweets on Kashmir are "absolutely false and concocted",
Rashid had, in her tweets, alleged that Army personnel "ransacked" houses and
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First Published: Aug 19 2019 | 9:25 PM IST

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