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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah: "The
police will act tough against those involved in abusing or intimidating the
music enthusiasts". File photo: Nissar Ahmad Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday the police would act tough
on the "handful of morons" abusing and harassing the girl members of
the Valley’s musical bands, even as the FIR was filed under IT Act against six
suspects Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday the police would act tough
on the “handful of morons” abusing and harassing girl members of the Valley’s
musical bands, even as the first criminal case was registered under the Information
Technology Act and six of the suspects were identified.
“We’ll
leave no stone unturned to ensure that every one of them is identified and
punished under law. I have directed my police to get tough and track whoever is
involved in abusing or intimidating these music enthusiasts,” Mr. Abdullah told
The Hindu. “Rest assured that the police will hold the investigation with the
full amount of seriousness and take the investigation to its logical
conclusion.”
Mr.
Abdullah said the decision on performing or not performing would be taken only
by the young artists and their families, and the State government would create
an atmosphere in which they would have more than one option. “The law will take
its course, and I mean it,” he asserted.
Minutes
after the Chief Minister’s conversation with this correspondent, the police in
Srinagar confirmed that “FIR No: 05 of 2013 dated February 4, 2013” had been
registered against anonymous persons at the Rajbagh Police Station under
Sections 66-A of the IT Act and 506 of the Ranbir Penal Code.
Deputy
Inspector General, Central Kashmir, Syed Ahfadul Mujtaba told The Hindu that
the guilty would be liable to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment. He said a
team of the Cyber-Crime Cell [CCC] of the district police was assiduously
holding the investigation.
Well-placed
sources disclosed that at least six of the suspects were identified and the
cellphones and datacards of nearly 20 suspects put under surveillance. They
said the CCC team, in coordination with the BSNL and some private Internet
service providers, was scanning call detail records, uploading and downloading
activity on social media networks, messages and pictures posted or tagged on
different Facebook walls.
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