Journalists Questioned After FIR Against Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
J&Okay Police have filed FIR in opposition to Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front for a shutdown name
Srinagar/New Delhi:
Two newshounds have been referred to as for wondering by way of Jammu and Kashmir police after reporting on a Kashmir Valley shutdown name issued by way of banned separatist outfit JKLF to mark the putting of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat. The police, who’ve additionally filed a FIR (first data file) in opposition to the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, stated the newshounds have been best wondered and now not detained.
On the other hand, newshounds’ teams within the newly-formed union territory have criticised the motion, calling it harassment and alleging the law enforcement officials have been defining what they may and may just now not file.
The newshounds in query had carried the entire JKLF commentary of the shutdown name, which is thought to be the primary by way of separatists because the centre’s resolution to withdraw particular standing to J&Okay beneath Article 370 and cut up it into two union territories.
The Yasin Malik-led JKLF was banned by the centre in March closing yr beneath provisions of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, or UAPA. Yasin Malik have been detained at Srinagar Airport a month previous and booked under the Public Safety Act. He has been in Delhi’s Tihar Prison since.
Then Union House Secretary Rajiv Gauba stated the organisation used to be additionally concerned within the homicide of Kashmiri Pandits that induced their exodus from the Valley.
“Yasin Malik used to be the mastermind at the back of the purging of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley and is answerable for their genocide,” he stated, including there have been 37 instances recently in opposition to JKLF.
Afzal Guru was hanged for his function within the 2001 assault on parliament, wherein 5 heavily-armed gunmen opened fireplace and killed 10 other people, together with 5 Delhi Police group of workers.
Maqbool Bhat used to be hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Prison and his frame used to be buried within the prison. Since then circle of relatives and political teams were hard go back of mortal stays for his closing rites.
The JKLF had issued the decision to mark their deaths; Maqbool Bhat used to be hanged February 11, 1984, and Afzal Guru on February nine, 2013.
Safety forces in J&Okay are on top alert all the way through this 72-hour duration; on Wednesday a CRPF solider and two terrorists were killed in a gun battle out of doors Srinagar. Law enforcement officials stated the stumble upon started after 3 terrorists fired on CRPF group of workers at a cell unit within the space.
In line with information company PTI safety forces had intelligence inputs suggesting terrorists would try extra moves at safety installations forward of Afzal Guru’s 7th dying anniversary.
