The Jammu Kashmir Police on Wednesday said that an inquiry has been initiated against a reporter of a magazine following a complaint by many ‘prominent personalities of Srinagar’.
“Many prominent personalities of Srinagar have lodged complaint against one reporter of Caravan namely Shahid Tantray and his mischievous article ‘false flags’,” Police said in a statement to GNS, adding, ” They have displayed apprehension that it is akin to giving targets to militant groups, something which has been done by similar articles in Kashmir fight blog etc”.
In past many personalities like journalist Shujaat Bukhari have been targeted in similar fashion when the names started coming in such “cryptic articles, police said further.
“On the basis of this complaint, an inquiry has started into the real reasons why these personalities were specifically named in this article”.
Police said that Shahid Tantray has so far not cooperated in the said inquiry. Names of prominent personalities has been kept secret “so as not to expose them to any further threat/danger”.
Pertinently, Shahid Tantray had written a story for UK based Magazine Caravan in which he had said Indian Army was behind the protest ‘Aakhir Kab Tak’. Shahid had clicked photographs that showed the hoardings for the protests being transported in the vehicles of the Indian Army. (With Inputs from GNS)