Overview
- Rathore visited Hazratganj police station on Saturday night with her husband, where the investigating officer recorded her statement.
- Assistant commissioner of police Vikas Jaiswal said she came on her own, there is no night-time arrest provision for women under the BNSS, and she later left with the possibility of being called again during the day.
- One report, citing police sources, claimed she was taken into custody and kept at a women’s police station for questioning, a detail not confirmed by the ACP’s account.
- An FIR was registered at Hazratganj on April 27 under multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections over her social-media posts following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
- Complainant Abhay Pratap Singh alleged her posts could disturb communal harmony and were circulated abroad, while Hindu organisations and BJP workers lodged hundreds of additional complaints across Varanasi.