J&K Police seeks cooperation from public in militant website case

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police sought cooperation from the public to voluntarily provide their accounts of interactions with the accused arrested in connection with a case related to a militant blog site.

A police spokesperson said that police has received inputs from several quarters that a number of rumours and apprehensions are floating around centring the arrest and investigation of several accused persons in connection with the enquiry into the kashmirfightwordpress.com related matters.

"Examination of individuals, records, documents and verification of facts and circumstances emerging from such examination suggests that a sizeable number of persons have variously transacted with one or more of the arrested accused persons," he said.

He said it is understandable that some of these interactions are on account of genuine professional or allied requirements. "To segregate the genuine from the fraudulent, cooperation from the members of the general public is solicited," he said.

He said the individuals could volunteer and provide their account of the interaction and transactions they have had with the accused persons. “This way, the investigating authority and the persons requiring to be further investigated would come to be decided speedily, efficiently and with minimum hassles. Besides seeking appointment with the chief investigating officer Miss Tanushree, SP East, concerned members of the public are also invited to email their information and request letters to [email protected]," he added.

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar last week said a militant syndicate was busted by arresting five persons from different parts of J&K for their alleged involvement in preparing and blogging hit list of government officials, journalists, lawyers and others.



Mr Kumar termed the arrests of these accused as a major breakthrough, saying it would help in unearthing the ultimate plans behind the murder of Journalist Sujat Bukhari, Advocate Babar Qadri and Businessman Satpal Nischal.

He said that kashmirfight.wordpress.com was being run by a white collar militant syndicate whose task was to prepare a strategic hit list of Government officers, journalists, social activists, lawyers, political functionaries.

"There individuals were assessed by the syndicate to be responsible for harming the overarching objectives of furthering and sustaining the Pakistani supported militant programme with the eventual aim of secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Indian union and its eventual annexation with Pakistan," he said.