Early Times Report
Jammu, July 21: Even as the police have claimed to have busted a gang for its alleged role in threatening social activists, political leaders, government officers and journalists in Jammu and Kashmir, more arrests are likely in the coming days.
Sources said during the investigations names of “several more persons have surfaced other than those already arrested.” “Profile of each of them is being checked and many more arrests are expected soon maybe within a week,” said a senior official privy to the investigations, on the condition of anonymity.
He, however, declined to divulge details about the names of persons likely to be arrested soon.
On July 17, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar told that the group behind issuing intimidations to social activists, political leaders, Government officers and journalists, was busted during multiple raids in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that a group of five people including the kingpin were running a blog site: Kashmirfight.wordpress.com. He added that in UT- wide operation, houses and properties at multiple locations including Sanat Nagar and Raj Bagh in Srinagar, Batpura in Hazratbal, Poonch, Jammu and Hawal in Pulwama belonging to these five persons were searched.
“Armed with search warrants granted by competent court of law, police parties carried out searches of the suspect premises and recovered a large amount of cell phones, digital storage devices and computing platforms. In one house alone, 32 mobile phones, one tablet, two laptops, four hard disk storage devices, seven memory cards and one dongle were seized,” the police said.
The IGP said: “Kashmir fight.wordpress.com was being run by a white collar militant syndicate whose task was to prepare a strategic hit list of Government officers, journalists, social activists, lawyers, political functionaries who were assessed by the syndicate to be responsible for harming the overarching objectives of furthering and sustaining the Pakistani supported militant programme.”
Last year in October, the police had registered a case against a blog for threatening 39 journalists and political activists whose names were published in Kashmirfight blog. |
