Dikhyaa Mohanty 
On 26th January thousands of farmers breached the barricades and clashes with the police while protesting against the agricultural reforms as ‘Tractor Rally’. Now the Noida police book the Parliament members – Shashi Tharoor, journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Vinod K Jose (Caravan) and others for sedition.
As per the reports, an FIR has been lodged at the Sector-20 police station where it stated that they have been booked for tweeting and spreading fake news like a farmer’s death during the tractor rally on 26th January 2021. A resident of Noida filled the complaint where it alleges of digital broadcast and social media posts by these people who were responsible for the violence during the tractor rally by the farmers in Delhi.
The Delhi Police also reportedly released a video showing a protester speeding and running over barricades with his tractor near ITO, resulting in the vehicle overturning. Even the post-mortem report revealed that the protester died due to the accident.
They have been booked under the sections of 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 153B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 298 (Uttering, words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (Criminal Intimidation), 505(2) (Statements conducing to public mischief), 124-A (Sedition), 34 (Acts have done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 120-B (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and section 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The FIR also includes Zafar Agha, the Group Editor-in-Chief of National Herald, and Ananth Nath, the Caravan editor. They have also been booked under pertinent provisions of the Information Technology Act.
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