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The Jammu and Kashmir Police connected Friday (January 2, 2026) ordered a preliminary enquiry aft a cricketer from southbound Kashmir wore a helmet with the Palestinian flag during a backstage cricket tourney lucifer successful Jammu, a constabulary spokesperson said.
A video and photos of the cricketer, Furqan Ul Haq, were circulated online aft helium was seen displaying the emblem connected his helmet during the Jammu and Kashmir Champions League present connected Thursday (January 1, 2026).
"Yesterday, a video circulating connected societal media showed a cricket player, Furqan Ul Haq, nonmigratory of Tangipuna, Pulwama, playing cricket astatine K C Door successful Muthi, portion displaying a Palestine logo connected his helmet," the spokesperson said.
He said that successful presumption of the "sensitivity of the substance and its imaginable nationalist bid implications", a 14-day preliminary enquiry nether Section 173(3) of the BNSS has been initiated astatine the Domana constabulary presumption to ascertain the facts, intent and inheritance of the idiosyncratic and "any imaginable linkages".
The tourney started connected December 29 successful Jammu.
The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association maintained that it has nary role, engagement oregon relation with the tournament, arsenic it is simply a backstage matter and not recognised by the association.
This is the 2nd cricket league successful the UT to beryllium deed with controversy, pursuing the illness of the privately-run Indian Heaven Premier League (IHPL), whose organisers allegedly fled Srinagar connected November 1 aft duping players, officials, broadcasters and hoteliers.
The IHPL, which began connected October 25 astatine Srinagar's Bakshi Stadium with planetary stars specified arsenic Chris Gayle, Martin Guptill and Thisara Perera, folded aft lone 12 of the 27 scheduled matches, leaving astir 60 cricketers— including erstwhile India players Praveen Kumar, Iqbal Abdullah and Parvez Rasool— on with umpires and staff, stranded.
