{"id":23097,"date":"2020-04-06T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23097"},"modified":"2020-04-06T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:46:48","slug":"cyber-police-claims-to-have-busted-module-involved-in-sharing-videos-of-old-encounters-to-instigate-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23097","title":{"rendered":"Cyber police claims to have busted module \u201cinvolved in sharing videos of old encounters to instigate violence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, April 06:<\/em><\/strong> The Cyber Cell of Jammu and Kashmir police Monday claimed to have busted module involved in spreading old encounter videos on social media to instigate people for violence.<\/em>
\n\u201cWe have traced and arrested three youth from various parts of Kashmir who had shared old video to spread fake message about civilian killings in Kulgam district and were also uploading pictures of militants on social media to gain sympathy for militancy,\u201d Tahir Ashraf, SP Cyber police Kashmir told Kashmir Indepth News (KINS).<\/em>
\nAccording to the SP, \u201c Three youth from Baramulla ,South Kashmir and Srinagar respectively, were arrested for sharing a video of 2018 uploaded on Youtube by National News Group showing content of an encounter. \u201cThe youth had changed the caption of the small clip by writing three civilians killed and 30 others injured in Kulgam encounter,\u201d said Ashraf.<\/em>
\nHe said that the clip was uploaded by several other people and in some parts of South Kashmir, law and order situation was about to break. \u201cTimely intervention of the cyber cell that brought down the content from all accounts and blocked the content saved the situation from turning bad,\u201d the officer said.<\/em>
\nHe further told KINS: \u201cThe other youth, who have also been arrested, had uploaded the pictures of militants by portraying them as martyrs in a bid to gain people\u2019s sympathy. This was a common in year 2016 as even some people had kept the display picture (DPs) of slain militants in a bid to eulogies militants,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the swift action of cyber police has helped to prevent these youth from luring others towards militancy.<\/em>
\nWe are investigating whether they were doing it on their own or were directed from the handlers from across of within Kashmir. That is subject to investigation,\u201d he added.<\/em>
\nHe said that the social media is the fastest means to spread fake news, instigate people through wrong information etc. \u201cApart from these three youth, a few more have also been identified who are involved in the same act,\u201d the officer, who oversees cyber wing operations in Kashmir said.<\/em>
\nHe said that action will be initiated against the arrested trio under section 505 Indian Penal Code (IPC) and there is also a provision to put them behind the bars for three years. \u201cAn FIR has been lodged and further investigations are on while as more arrests are on cards,\u201d the officer told KINS.<\/em>
\nHe warned of a toughest action and severe punishment under serval sections of Indian Penal Code against those trying to fake uploading videos to trigger law and order situations in Kashmir.<\/em>
\n\u201cSome people of Kashmir use to upload videos of militants on social media and even keep the pictures of militants as their DPs. It\u2019s a serious offence and now it can invite action against IPC sections, especially 505 section of IPC that also allows three years of jail,\u201d he maintained.(KINS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, April 06: The Cyber Cell of Jammu and Kashmir police Monday claimed to have busted module involved in spreading old encounter videos on social media to instigate people for violence. \u201cWe have traced and arrested three youth from various parts of Kashmir who had shared old video to spread fake message about civilian killings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}