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Kashmir main cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, successful his Friday (April 3, 2026) sermon, said aggregate information agencies nether the pretext of cases were going aft Kashmiris, particularly section employees, “to make an ambiance of fear”.
Speaking from the pulpit of the historical Jama Masjid, Mr. Farooq said Kashmir was signaling regular filing of cases, chargesheets, and arrests of Kashmiris by the aggregate agencies operating similar the State Investigation Agency (SIA), Counter Intelligence Kashmir, Cyber Cell, Anti-Corruption Bureau and National Investigation Agency.
“This creates an ambiance of fearfulness and intimidation and reinforces the communicative that portrays an full radical arsenic unsafe and fishy to beryllium kept nether check,” said Mr. Farooq
He said the termination of authorities employees combined with filing of cases against section employees come across arsenic “deliberate enactment to found fear”. “This coercive argumentation cannot physique viable bid oregon pb to advancement if that is what the authorities seek,” helium added.
He besides condemned the sidesplitting of a civilian, Raashid Ahmed Mughal, a nonmigratory of Ganderbal, successful an encounter. “The victim’s household says that helium was a part-time machine relation with nary links to militancy. That his assemblage was besides not fixed to the household for burial is inhuman and condemnable. His household seeks justness done an impartial probe,” said Mr. Farooq.
He hoped that justness is done “as past experiences bash not animate confidence”. “Let america anticipation that the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s probe bid volition present justness and those liable are held to relationship and punished,” said Mr. Farooq.
