The complainant has said that the accused including Shashi Tharoor and Rajdeep Sardesai, deliberately spread misleading and provocative news.
Lucknow| Uttar Pradesh Police has registered a case against seven people, including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai in Sector 20 police station of Noida. The FIR filed on the basis of a complaint lodged by a person named Abhijeet Mishra said that the accused posted incorrect tweets on January 26 and a conspiracy was hatched to incite riots.
In his complaint to the police, Arpit Mishra said that he lives with his family in Sector 74 Supertech Cape Town. They allege that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, journalist Mrinal Pandey, journalist Zafar Aga, Pareshnath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose and an unknown are behind the January 26 violence in Delhi.
The complainant has said, “I am deeply saddened by the deliberate riots on January 26, 2021. These individuals acted out of prejudice which endangered the security of the country and the lives of the people. These people instigated violence and riots in the capital with the intention of staging a planned riot and killing public servants.”
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Noida police booked Congress MP #ShashiTharoor, journalists #rajdeepsardesai, Vinod K Jose, #MrinalPande & others for allegedly misreporting & spreading disharmony during the clashes between farmers and cops on #RepublicDay. #FarmerProtest @gsvasu_TNIE https://t.co/fvDMN8etVD
— The New Indian Express (@NewIndianXpress) January 28, 2021
The complainant has said that the accused including Shashi Tharoor and Rajdeep Sardesai, deliberately spread misleading and provocative news. He further said that they tweeted from their Twitter handle “false news” of protesting tractor driver being shot by the police. “Under the well-planned conspiracy, false information was spread that the protester was shot dead by the police. It was deliberately said that there should be large-scale riots and tensions between different communities,” he said in the complaint.
The FIR has been lodged under 11 IPC sections, including Section 124A (sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between groups), section 295A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings), Section 504 (intentional insult), Section 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 120B (criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable by death).
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