Srinagar: Secretary of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, a senior lawyer from Poonch and a scholar is among the five suspects arrested at J & K on Saturday as part of the hard action on the intimidation network associated with Pakistani-sponsored blogs and targeted at journalists, activists , politicians and even government officials.
Muhammad Akbar Sofi’s civilian official, his daughter Nazhy Yasrab Rehmani and Son Tabish Akbar Rehoni allegedly worked with Kingpin suspected, Peerzada Raqif Makhdoomi from the Border in a lawyer based in Hazratbal and Poonch (Kashmir Range) Vijay Kumar.
The defendant has run the blog “Kashmirfight.wordpress.com”, which is claimed by police J & K sponsored by the contents of Pakistan, from the “War Room” spread on property at Sanat Nagar and Raj Bagh, Batpura, Poonch in Jammu and Arhal at Pulwama Kashmir South.
“It is necessary to mention that Kashmir Fight.wordpress.com is run by the white collar militant syndicate whose job is to prepare a list of government officials, journalists, activists, lawyers, and political officials who are considered responsible for their responsibilities.
To hurt the overall goal and maintain the program.
Militants supported by Pakistan, with the aim of the separation of Jammu and Kashmir which are finally from the Indian Union and renovations finally with Pakistan, “said IGP Kumar.
Armed with a search warrants, the police team stormed all the suspected places and seized a number of cellphones, digital storage devices and computing platforms.
“In one house, 32 cellphones, tablets, two laptops, four hard disks, seven memory cards and one dongle seized,” Kumar said.
In 2018, shortly after Journalist Shujat Bukhari was shot dead, the blog had mentioned the names of several senior scribe working for national print and television channels and also published their photos in an effort to target them.
While the daughter and son of Sofi were arrested from the new family home purchased at Sanat Nagar, the city corporate secretary was picked up from the residence of Raj Bagh from his second wife on Saturday.
Lawyers Khalid got engaged to marry Daughter Sofi Nazhish after Eid Ouch or Bakra Eid this weekend.
The police expect laptops and storage devices confiscated to give instructions to the conspiracy behind the murder of journalist Bukhari, Advocates of Babar Qadri, and Satpal Nischal, a 65-year-old jewelry who had obtained last year’s domicile certificate.