AJMER: Government will not spare those who issued threats to the now disbanded all-girl rock band, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday.
But he maintained there was no need for legal action against the grand mufti who issued fatwa terming singing as un-Islamic.
Abdullah, during a visit to dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti here, expressed happiness over the arrests made in connection to the online abuse and threats to the all-girl rock band ‘Pragaash’ and said more arrests were likely.
He said some of those who had issued threats had left the valley and police were trying to nab them.
Referring to grand mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad, through a decree, terming singing as “un-Islamic” and asking the girl band to abandon it, Omar said there was no need to take legal action against him as he has not violated any law.
Omar had earlier posted on the micro-blogging site Twitter that he was glad that the police in Kashmir has identified and arrested those who had issued online threats.
“I’m told more arrests possible,” he tweeted.
Three persons have been arrested from Ganderbal, Anantnag and Srinagar districts in J&K for posting threatening and abusive messages on the Facebook page of ‘Pragaash’.
Police have started tracking down the internet protocol addresses of the 26 users whose comments, out of the total 900 posts on the band’s Facebook page, were found abusive, officials said.
A case has been registered against them under Section 66A of IT Act and Section 506 RPC (criminal intimidation).
(PTI)
