New Delhi, September 09, 2021 (PPI-OT):Prominent Indian journalist and author Rana Ayyub has been booked in a case by Ghaziabad Police in Uttar Pradesh, India. In a complaint she has allegedly misappropriated funds that she raised in online campaigns for different causes. The allegations also include that she received funds from outside India illegally, violating The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010 norms.
Gyanendra Kumar Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police, Ghaziabad City, confirmed to media that an FIR has been registered against Ayyub at Indrapuram police station under cyber-crime laws. Cyber Police SHO, Indrapuram, Sanjay Panday, said the police will conduct further investigation to decide whether to arrest Ayyub.
The complaint dated 28 August 2021 claimed that Ayyub allegedly raised “huge amounts in crores” through online campaigns for slum-dwellers and farmers, relief work for Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra and help for Covid-19 impacted people in India. Ayyub, who frequently writes for international publications including a regular column for the Washington Post, was being questioned by government agencies, a tactic, she says, being employed to silence her.
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