The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday served a show-cause notice to The Wire , asking the news website’s editor-in-chief to explain why ...
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday served a show-cause notice to The Wire, asking the news website’s editor-in-chief to explain why action should not be taken against them for allegedly misrepresenting facts and circulating concocted stories.
“Such news articles has [have] caused fear and alarm among the people at large and that tend to malign the image and demoralise the police/security forces working in the region,” said the notice by Kashmir Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar.
The first article that the police was referring to was published on June 28, headlined, “They have destroyed my family: J&K cop, wife and daughter gunned down by militants in Pulwama”. Two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants fired at Special Police Officer Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, his wife and daughter after barging into their house on June 27.
While the policeman and his wife, Raja Begum, died on the same night, their daughter, Rafiya Jan, succumbed to her injuries the next day at a Srinagar hospital.
“In recent times, many SPOs have resigned from service after facing threats from the militants while some have even joined the ranks of the militancy,” The Wire article said.
However, Kumar said that this was incorrect and deceptive information. “Under the circumstances when security forces in the region are working day [and] night to combat and...
