Police conducts raids in Batamaloo, HMT Srinagar

Srinagar: Police on Saturday said that it has conducted searches at various places in Batamaloo and HMT areas of Srinagar city in furtherance of investigation of case FIR No. 65/2024 under section of 13 UA(P) Act registered at Police Station Shergari.
In a statement issued from Zonal Police Headquarters Srinagar Police said that the instant investigation is going on against some individuals who at the behest of adversary and in criminal conspiracy with others, were found prima facie involved in orchestrating a campaign of manufacturing fabricated and malicious narrative by way of disseminating twisted and false information to provoke people for unlawful and violent activities.
Stating that district Police Srinagar, after obtaining search warrants from NIA Court, conducted searches in the houses of Obais Riyaz Dar S/o Riyaz Ahmad Dar R/o Bonpora Batmaloo and Sahil Ahmad Bhat S/o Noor Mohammad R/o HMT, Zainakot, Police in its statement further said that during the course of searches, incriminating materials and electronic devices were also seized, adding therein that more such searches in the houses of identified suspects involved in malicious and seditious propaganda would be conducted in the coming days.
In the concluding para of its above quoted statement Police appealed people to exercise responsibility while using social media platforms and to refrain from sharing or uploading inciteful content that promotes false narratives and misleads people especially youth to commit militant acts.