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The J&K Police’s peculiar cell, Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) detained a doc and his woman for “unlawful activities online“.
Meanwhile, an Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) tribunal convicted a section militant, who was arrested from an brushwood tract successful 2021 successful Shopian.
Officials said CIK teams launched coordinated searches astatine 4 locations crossed the districts of Srinagar, Kulgam and Anantnag connected Tuesday. “These searches are portion of an ongoing crackdown against societal media abusers operating successful connivance with handlers crossed the border, who person been deliberately engaged successful furthering terrorist, secessionist, and separatist agendas,” the constabulary said.
During the operation, officials said 2 accused, Shahzada Akhtar, woman of Dr. Umer Farooq Bhat, nonmigratory of Bugam Kulgam and presently residing astatine Sheeren Bagh, Srinagar, with her husband, Dr. Umer Farooq Bhat, who is presently moving successful Super Speciality of SMHS Hospital, Sheerinbagh, Srinagar, were detained.
“Multiple integer devices and incriminating worldly having nonstop relevance to the investigation. The recoveries see 5 mobile phones, 5 SIM cards, 1 tablet device, and further integer and documentary grounds and literature,” the officials said.
Dr. Farooq was allegedly recovered “indulging successful online unlawful activities, misusing his authoritative presumption and societal legitimacy to prosecute successful behaviour detrimental to nationalist bid and nationalist security”.
The pistillate fishy is alleged to person been progressive successful radicalizing section women done curated online and offline engagements, pushing divisive narratives, and influencing susceptible groups nether the pretext of assemblage interaction. “Her affiliation with banned violent enactment ‘Dukhtaran-e-Milat’, is presently nether investigation. This magnitude of the lawsuit highlights a concerning inclination of the exploitation of societal roles and nonrecreational facades to beforehand disruptive agendas,” the constabulary said.
All recovered devices are undergoing elaborate forensic analysis, which is expected to unravel a broader integer web linked to organised propaganda efforts.
“Early leads bespeak the anticipation of a wider ecosystem of collaborators and sympathisers, whose activities were aimed astatine amplifying extremist contented and manipulating nationalist perception,” officials said.
This operation, officials said, sends a wide and unambiguous connection that nary individual, irrespective of presumption oregon profession, volition beryllium allowed to weaponise societal oregon integer power to assistance coercion oregon disturb nationalist order.
Meanwhile, the UAPA tribunal convicted a section militant, Towseef Ahmed Thokar, who was arrested live from an brushwood tract astatine Imam Sahab successful Shopian successful 2021.
The tribunal sentenced him to six years of imprisonment. The accused was recovered blameworthy of panic offences.
“In presumption of the rising menace of terrorism, courts indispensable follow a stringent attack against acts that endanger nationalist information and the regularisation of law, portion ensuring that law safeguards and the close to a just proceedings are afloat upheld,” Special Judge Parvaiz Iqbal held.
On May 5, 2021, an brushwood broke retired betwixt the information forces and terrorists astatine Imam Sahab, Shopian. During the encounter, 3 militants, Danish Ahmed Mir, Zahid Bashir, and Umar Hassan Bhat, were killed, portion the accused, Thokar, was apprehended live from the brushwood tract on with arms and ammunition.
The probe of the lawsuit was conducted by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammad Ashrif Lissery. The tribunal besides commended the Investigating Officer and the prosecution for conducting a thorough and nonrecreational probe and for presenting beardown and credible grounds that withstood judicial scrutiny.
“The probe has been carried retired successful a nonrecreational manner, and the prosecution has systematically presented grounds that led the tribunal to judge successful the truthfulness of the prosecution case,” the judgement reads.
