By means of PTI
SRINAGAR: A journalist in Jammu and Kashmir used to be arrested for allegedly importing anti-national content material on social media with a “felony purpose” to impress the general public to disturb regulation and order, police stated on Friday.
Fahad Shah, an editor of a information portal, used to be arrested after a case used to be registered through police in Pulwama district in south Kashmir.
“It used to be reliably learnt through the Pulwama police that some Fb customers and portals have been importing anti-national content material, together with images, movies and posts, with a felony purpose to create worry a few of the public and the content material so uploaded can impress the general public to disturb regulation and order,” a police spokesperson stated.
He stated it used to be additionally learnt that those Fb customers have been importing posts glorifying terrorist actions and inflicting dent to the picture of law-enforcing businesses, but even so inflicting ill-will and disaffection towards the rustic.
“Because the aforementioned actions through one of the Fb customers quantity to fee of cognizable offences, the Pulwama police registered a case vide FIR No.19/2022 underneath the related sections of regulation and initiated an investigation,” the spokesperson stated.
Shah used to be arrested all through the process the investigation, he stated, including that the accused is in police custody.
Shah used to be previous wondered through police after the scoop portal uploaded a tale in response to a declare through the circle of relatives of a terrorist, who used to be killed in an come upon within the Naira house of Pulwama on January 30.
4 ultras have been killed within the come upon, police had stated, however the circle of relatives of one of the crucial slain terrorists had claimed that their kinfolk used to be blameless.
Reacting to the journalist’s arrest, Other people’s Democratic Birthday party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti stated status up for in fact deemed anti-national.
“Status up for in fact deemed anti nationwide. Appearing the reflect to a deeply illiberal and authoritarian executive may be anti nationwide. Fahad’s journalistic paintings speaks for itself and depicts the bottom truth unpalatable to GOI. What number of Fahads will you arrest?” she wrote on Twitter.
