SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir police has registered a case against rumour-mongers who spread false information on social networking websites about casualties in the recent protests in the Valley.
“Police have registered a case against all those involved in trying to vitiate the atmosphere by spreading rumours about deaths,” Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir told Press Trust of India.
He said that among those who posted rumours about a young boy being killed in Sumbal was one Facebook user ‘Syed Naseem’.
The user is the son of octogenarian Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Although the IGP refused to share details about the actual identity of the user, Syed Naseem himself told PTI that he had indeed posted such ‘news’ on his Facebook profile.
“Yes, I had posted that, but I removed it quickly when I heard that it was not true,” he said.
The IGP said the police will take actions all such persons and that a case has been registered in police station Kothi Bagh.
“In this regard a case FIR No. 57/2013 U/S 67 IT Act and 505 RPC (causing fear or alarm to the public…induced to commit an offence against the State) has been registered in Police Station Kothibagh,” police said in a press release.
