Journalist Rana Ayyub has been booked by the Ghaziabad police on charges of cash laundering and misappropriating donations meant for Covid patients and flood victims in some eastern states. Other charges that journalist Ayyub faces are the criminal breach of trust and cheating by using computer resources under the data Technology Act.
The FIR was lodged earlier in the week on Tuesday on the complaint of Vikas Pandey, founding father of an NGO Hindu IT Cell. The police will take further legal proceeding against the journalist only after investigating the case and finding evidence against her, city Superintendent of Police Gyanendra Singh said.
Ayyub’s name also figures during a recent case of circulation of a video during which a 72-year-old Bulandshahr resident had accused four men of beating him up and chopping his beard to force him to chant Jai Shri Ram. The Ghaziabad police had, however, later found that the communal allegations made by the elderly Muslim man were false and he had made them on the instigation of a Samajwadi Party worker.
The police will take further proceedings against journalist Rana Ayyub only after investigating the case.
