The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s intelligence wing has booked three persons from the Union Territory who are based in the United States and Germany for allegedly “weaponising” social media platforms and “promoting anti-national sentiments and advancing a secessionist agenda” to create disaffection against India, reported The Indian Express on Wednesday.
Based on the first information report, a special National Investigation Agency court in Srinagar has directed the three Kashmiris to appear before it by the end of January, The New Indian Express reported.
Those booked are Mubeen Ahmad Shah and Azizul Hassan Ashai, alias Tony Ashai, from Srinagar, and Rifat Wani from Kupwara, stated Counter Intelligence Kashmir, the intelligence wing of the police.
While Shah and Ashai are in the United States, Wani is based in Germany.
The case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to promoting enmity, hatred or disharmony between groups, and statements creating or promoting enmity. The police have also invoked the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, The Indian Express quoted the intelligence wing as having stated.
It added that the case was registered on the basis of “credible intelligence inputs” revealing a “well-orchestrated conspiracy by unscrupulous anti-social and anti-national elements operating at the behest of secessionist forces” within and outside the Kashmir valley.
The persons were “masquerading as news portals, journalists and freelancers” while “weaponising” Facebook, X…
Source: Three Kashmiris in US, Germany booked for ‘weaponising’ social media to spread ‘anti-India’ content
