{"id":22433,"date":"2018-11-17T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22433"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T09:37:56","slug":"shehla-rashid-pocketing-money-crowdfunded-for-kathua-unnao-victims-family-is-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/shehla-rashid-pocketing-money-crowdfunded-for-kathua-unnao-victims-family-is-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehla Rashid pocketing money crowdfunded for Kathua\/Unnao victims’ family is fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media was recently brimming with allegations that JNU student leader Shehla Rashid embezzled the money crowdfunded<\/a> for the family of the Kathua rape victim. The accusations reached to the extent that lawyer Vibhor Anand<\/a>\u00a0appealed to those who\u00a0felt “cheated” by Rashid that he\u00a0is planning to take legal action against her.<\/p>\n

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Several accusations of an identical nature were directed at Rashid even after the organisers of the crowdfunding, Crowdnewsing, tweeted that the money has reached the family. They provided proof of transaction by posting a photograph of the family’s passbook. The entire process was handled electronically with funds being transferred directly from Ketto into the account of the victims’ families.<\/p>\n

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Here are 3 screenshots of the #Kathua<\/a> funds transferred.
\nThe passbook, the passbook entry & the proof of electronic transfer from Ketto to the family’s account.
\nAlso, since the beginning of the Campaign, we have been regularly updating everything –https:\/\/t.co\/CkwBrn4toa<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CNB7WHXtrD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Crowdnewsing (@crowdnewsing) November 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Allegations against Rashid were furthered when the student leader decided to deactivate her Twitter account citing “toxicity and hate”. Right-wing social media influencer Sonam Mahajan\u00a0linked<\/a> this to Rashid trying to evade questions on the “Rs 40 lakh” raised for the family of the victim, implying that it never reached them. At the time of writing this article, Mahajan’s tweet was retweeted over 7,000 times and liked over 16,000 times.<\/p>\n

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Similar allegations<\/a>\u00a0were floating on social media since the crowdfunding was initiated in April. That same month,\u00a0Zee News’\u00a0<\/em>Sudhir Chaudhary on his show ‘Daily News Analysis’ reported on the funds with the hashtag #KathuaBahanaDeshNishana (Kathua an excuse, nation a target). The broadcast was titled – “\u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902, \u0917\u0948\u0902\u0917\u0930\u0947\u092a \u092a\u0940\u0921\u093c\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u092a\u0930 \u0932\u093e\u0916\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u091a\u0902\u0926\u093e \u091c\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e \u0916\u0947\u0932| (Watch, the game of collecting lakhs of funds in the name of a gang-rape victim).”<\/p>\n

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\u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902, \u0917\u0948\u0902\u0917\u0930\u0947\u092a \u092a\u0940\u0921\u093c\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u092a\u0930 \u0932\u093e\u0916\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u091a\u0902\u0926\u093e \u091c\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e \u0916\u0947\u0932 #KathuaBahanaDeshNishana<\/a> @sudhirchaudhary<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/bIA6PX7tvQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Zee News Hindi (@ZeeNewsHindi) April 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“In the name of helping the parents of the child, lakhs of money are being collected from across the nation. However, the family is not receiving any help,”<\/em> declared Chaudhary.<\/p>\n

Fact: All funds have been transferred<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On April 13, 2018, online crowdfunding platform\u00a0Crowdnewsing<\/a>\u00a0began the collection of funds for the family of the Kathua rape victim with the help of Ketto.\u00a0The target amount was Rs 10 lakh and Shehla Rashid was one of the initiators of the campaign.<\/p>\n

As the public response was unexpectedly overwhelming, the organisers decided to extend the campaign to the Unnao rape<\/a> survivor as well. Crowdnewsing published an update on their website on April 14 that the final amount would be equally distributed between the two families.<\/p>\n

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“It took some time for acquiring the PAN details of the Unnao rape survivor and getting a joint account made for the family of the Kathua rape victim. But by the end of May, both the families had received their share of\u00a0Rs 18,46,774,”<\/em> said Bilal Zaidi, founder of Crowdnewsing, to Alt News. The same was updated on their website on May 25. The month before, Shehla Rashid had uploaded a video<\/a>, updating donors on the campaign.<\/p>\n

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On November 4, Crowdnewsing held a press conference<\/a> to elaborate on the fund collection and its subsequent transfer step by step. To counter the incessant misinformation on social media, the portal uploaded the statement of the Kathua victim’s family as proof that the money was transferred.<\/p>\n