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| Police takes strong objection to circulation of fake news about death of girl | | Fails to register case against 'anti-social' elements | |
Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 19: The Jammu & Kashmir Police has taken strong objection to the posting of wrong news regarding the death of a girl in South Kashmir's Shopian district on popular social networking sites. Interestingly, no case under relevant section has been registered with regard to this incident.
Reports said some of the persons circulated news on social networking sites that a girl namely Khushboo died while clashes were on in the Vehil village of South Kashmir's Shopian district. The news led to anger and panic among the residents of the village and groups of people clashed with police and security forces against the killing of the girl.
The news later on turned out to be wrong as the death of the girl in no way was related to the clashes that broke out in the Vehil village. It was due to this reason that the online editions of the Kashmir based newspapers and other news portals did not upload the news about the death of Khushboo.
A police spokesman while divulging details about the incident said that some people have posted on social networking sites that a girl namely Khushboo daughter of Mohammad Hussain Bhat resident of Gaddapora-Shopian died of heart attack after clashes between police/security forces and miscreants in Vehil Shopian.
"In this regard, the district administration Shopian has clarified that Gaddapora, the home of Khushboo is about seven kilometers away from the Vehil, where the miscreants set on fire a school and also indulged in stone pelting. As per the hospital authorities the girl has died in all likelihood because of cardiac arrest. The death of the girl is no way related to the incident that happened at Vehil. These posts are as such bereft of facts and are as such clarified," said the spokesman.
The spokesman however did not make any mention of any case registered against the persons who circulated fake news on social networking sites. This is despite the fact that a case can be easily filed against such persons under the relevant sections of Information Technology (IT) Act. Action can be taken against them under the relevant provisions of Cyber Security Act.
Meanwhile, the police are continuing with its crackdown against the people who are accused of resorting to stone pelting and carrying out anti-national as well as anti-social activities in Kashmir.
A police spokesman said that continuing with its sustained drive against the 'trouble mongers' involved in disturbing the situation in the valley by placing obstructions on roads, lanes, damaging civilian vehicles and shops, police arrested 45 miscreants during past 24 hours. As such 159 'trouble mongers' have been arrested by the police over the past three days.
The spokesman said that barring stray stone pelting incidents in Sopore and Shopian, overall situation remained under control today across the valley. Increased vehicular traffic and movement of people was observed on roads between various districts and towns of the valley including Srinagar city, the spokesman added. "A group of miscreants with the intentions of creating disturbance assembled at village Vehil in District Shopian and set on fire a middle school building. Police and security force deployment reached the spot to deal with the situation where miscreants resorted to stone pelting. In order to disperse the miscreants little force was used which caused injures to two miscreants/stone pelters. In this incident some police/security personnel also got injured," said the spokesman. The spokesman said that restriction under section 144 CrPC remained in force in the valley. However, curfew was imposed under the areas of some police stations in Srinagar city and Vehil area of Shopian District only, he added. |
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