In a surprising development, Jammu and Kashmir police have booked Bandipora Correspondent of news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) over a WhatsApp status showing 20 children who died in boat capsize incident on May 30, 2006, at Wular Lake as “martyrs.”
KNO’s Bandipora correspondent Sajid Raina received a call from police station Bandipora that an FIR has been lodged against him for keeping the WhatsApp status that showed 20 children who died in the Wular lake boat capsize incident on May 30, 2006, as “martyrs.”
“I was shocked to hear that an FIR has been lodged for keeping a simple WhatsApp status about 20 children who died on May 3, 2006 when their boat capsized in Wular Lake. This is really shocking. I don’t know what was wrong with my WhatsApp status,” he said.
Meanwhile, KNO apprised the top officials of police about the issue; however, there was no response at all.
KNO urges the Kashmir Press Club, Editors Guild, and other media organizations to take note of the issue, as the journalists in the peripheral areas are being harassed day-in and day-out on one pretext or the other.
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A few days back, KNO’s copy editor was also called to police station Bandipora for a Tweet about shifting of Oxygen Plant and the non-functionality of ventilators at DH Bandipora (Level-III Covid Care Facility).
The editor was made to sit in the police station for hours together and was “questioned” over a simple Tweet—(KNO)