ETV reporter Pir Azhar likely to be booked under IT Act
Srinagar: Home Ministry has directed the Jammu and Kashmir Police to identify the anti nationals and rumour mongers, who spew venom on social networking sites to try and create a law and order situation in the state.
“A communication had been sent to the micro-blogging site for providing details of the twitter handles and facebook account holders so that punitive action could be initiated at the earliest as it would help in reining in what is called ‘online jihadis’.
Police has laid special emphasis on monitoring the social networking websites and also various groups created on messaging services like WhatsApp, Telegram and similar such tools available on the Internet, they said.
According to reports, several facebook account holders including Pir Azhar who is reportedly working with ETV Bharat has updated antinational status in the last week are likely to be arrested under section 66 (a) of the IT Act.
Details revealed by cyber police that Piz Azhar working with ETV Bharat in his facebook status wrote that “Wo din bhi door nahi jab Kashmir ke azaadi ka chaand bhi Pakistan mein nazar ayega# Ramzan Mubarak.
Including Azar, several other journalists, advocates, government employees are likely to face action, a senior official told KPS.
The official said that a letter has been sent to Television channel ETV Bharat in this regard and necessary details has been sought. He further said that police may question senior officials of ETV Bharat and their employees working in Kashmir.
The idea behind the crackdown on ‘keypad jihadis’ was to ensure that police could concentrate more on nabbing or eliminating terrorists with real guns rather than those who wage war against the state machinery using keypads.
“It is a virtual battleground where a bloody war is fought, but with words. However, this has an impact on the young minds,” the officer said.
The social chat groups are active not just in Jammu and Kashmir. They are seeing participation from youngsters in the national capital, rest of the country and abroad as well.
In the Valley, social media access had been controlled to a large extent after authorities clamped down on over two dozen websites but the problem in Jammu and other parts of the country continues.
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