2 nabbed for extortion, promise for govt job
Two individuals were arrested on charges of extortion for promising jobs in the state food and supplies department.
Days after Jammu and Kashmir Police booked Ashish Kaul, a Kashmiri Pandit (KP), for allegedly posting abusive tweets from his handle against Kashmiri Muslims, the state police have now lodged an FIR against another Twitter user for allegedly writing abusive posts against KPs.
On Monday, state police booked another Twitter user after he relayed abusive tweets from his account, a police spokesperson said.
He said the police took cognisance of the matter after it surfaced that the tweets were hurtful and attract penalties under the law.
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The spokesman did not divulge any details about the Twitter handle in question. However, police sources said the user belonged to a minority community and had sent out abusive tweets against Kashmiri Pandits, following tweets by Ashish Kaul on Saturday.
The twitter user has been booked in the same FIR, which was registered on Saturday for the abusive tweets at Police Station Kothi Bagh, the spokesman said, while adding that an investigation had been initiated.
The spokesman said police would request Twitter India authorities to block such users and seek their details so that they could be booked under law.
Police on Saturday booked Ashish Kaul for posting abusive tweets. Kaul’s tweets were later removed, however, screenshots of the tweets were being circulating on social media, following which his account was suspended by Twitter.
Kaul’s tweet came after a group of Kashmiri people was thrashed by a mob in Sunlight Colony near New Delhi’s Maharani Bagh. While the victims had alleged that they were targeted because they were Kashmiris, the police said that the fight was over feeding the stray dogs.
Police have arrested four persons in connection with the case.
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