Srinagar: Police in Srinagar on Saturday conducted searches at various places in the city during the investigation of a case related to “orchestrating a campaign of manufacturing fabricated and malicious narrative to provoke people for unlawful and violent activities.”
A police spokesman said that raids were conducted in the Batamaloo and HMT areas of Srinagar in furtherance of the investigation of case FIR No. 65/2024 under section 13 of the UA(P) Act registered in Police Station Shergari.
District Police Srinagar, after obtaining search warrants from NIA Court, conducted searches in the houses of Obais Riyaz Dar, a resident of Bonpora Batamaloo, and Sahil Ahmad Bhat of HMT, Zainakote.
“During the course of searches, incriminating materials & electronic devices have been seized. More such searches in the houses of identified suspects involved in malicious and seditious propaganda would be conducted in the coming days,” police said.
They said the instant investigation is going on against some individuals who, at the behest of an adversary and in criminal conspiracy with others, were found prima facie involved in orchestrating a campaign of manufacturing fabricated and malicious narratives by way of disseminating twisted and false information to provoke people for unlawful and violent activities.
The police have advised citizens to exercise responsibility while using social media platforms and to refrain from sharing or uploading inciteful content that promotes false narratives and misleads people, especially youth, to commit acts of terror.
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