During the Republic Day riots, one rioter Navreet had died after the tractor he was driving to break police barricades turned turtle. Tharoor and others tweeted that he died after Delhi Police shot at him.
Punia, who works with the far-left propaganda website 'The Caravan' and Junputh, was moving through roadblocks and trying to remove the barricades when he misbehaved the police.
On Saturday, a complaint was registered against the far-left 'journalist' under Section 153B and 505 of the IPC in Rampur police station for trying to instigate the crowd by peddling false information about the death of a rioter named Navreet Singh, who had died during the tractor rally after his tractor turtled.