ON ARMY’S COMPLAINT , FIR AGAINST TWO KASHMIR - BASED WEBSITES

ON ARMY’S COMPLAINT , FIR AGAINST TWO KASHMIR - BASED WEBSITES

ON ARMY’S COMPLAINT , FIR AGAINST TWO KASHMIR - BASED WEBSITES

Kashmir Feb 01 , 2021 :

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday filed a First Information Report against two media websites – The Kashmir Walla and The Kashmiriyat – for publishing reports on the Army allegedly forcing authorities of a school in Shopian district to hold Republic Day celebrations.

The FIR was filed on the basis of a complaint by a local Army camp of the 44 Rashtriya Rifles in Imam Sahib area of Shopian, a police official told Scroll.in. The FIR has been filed under Sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.

Both websites published their articles on January 27, a day after a video of the Republic Day event at Jamia Siraj ul Uloom school was widely shared on social media. The school’s Chairman Mohammed Yusuf Mantoo said that Army personnel of the 44 Rashtriya Rifles had been forcing them for a month to hold the event, The Kashmiriyat reported.Speaking to The Kashmir Walla, Mantoo said that the Army insisted on holding the event at the school, despite him refusing to do so. “I told them you can do it and if you pressurise us, at most we will participate and sit in front of you,” he said.

 

 

“It has almost been a month that the Army is pressurising us to hold the event inside the school premises,” Mantoo was quoted as saying by The Kashmiriyat. “The Army forced us to participate in the event and put the banner of the school in front of the Republic Day celebrations.”