Delhi Police files case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, others
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New Delhi, February 01: Following the Noida police and gurugram police, Delhi police also filed the complaint against "Intellectual Journalist" Rajdeep Sardesai and "Prominent" Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for instigating people by spreading fake news during the "Tractor rally".
The FIR has been registered against them for posting "defamatory, false and instigating tweets on their Twitter handles and falsely accusing Delhi Police of the murder of a person" on Republic Day.
The case has been registered at the IP Estate police station under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153 (provocation to cause riot), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace), and 505-1b (intent to cause fear to the public). Besides Sardesai and Tharoor, the FIR names journalists Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose, Mrinal Pande, and Zafar Agha.
Earlier, Noida and Gurugram police have also filed a similar case against these Intellectuals for allegedly misreporting and spreading disharmony during the violent clashes in Delhi on Republic Day.
The FIR names Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, National Herald’s Senior consulting editor Mrinal Pandey, Quami Awaz editor Zafar Agha, Caravan magazine’s editor, and founder Paresh Nath, Caravan editor Anant Nath and it's executive editor Vinod K Jose, and one unnamed person.
According to the police, were booked for spreading the fake news that one protestor was shot dead by Delhi Police during the tractor rally on Republic Day, who had died due to an accident. The FIR says the accused acted in “prejudice”, which put national safety and people’s lives in jeopardy. “These people deliberately made malicious, offensive, misleading, and provocative statements, and tweeted…that police killed a protesting tractor driver,” it alleged.
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