Pulwama: School teacher arrested for ‘circulation of threatening posters’

PULWAMA — J&K Police on Tuesday said that on 10-09-2020, posters on behalf of Lashkar-i-Islam were found pasted in Gundipora Kakapora area which carried threat messages to some youth including few girl students.

“The posters further depicted that these individuals are involved in adultery/prostitution and informers of security forces, thereby created fear psychosis among the general public especially those who have been given life threats,” police statement said.

“In this connection, locals of the area approached P/S Kakapora and demanded legal action against the miscreants who had circulated the posters. Upon this, a case FIR No. 69/2020 U/S 18, 20 ULA (P) Act, 506 IPC was registered in Police Station Kakapora and investigation taken up,” it said.

The statement added that during the course of investigation, some suspects of the area were rounded up for questioning and during questioning, one of the suspects namely Muzamil Ahmad Dar S/O Farooq Ahmad Dar R/O Gundipora Kakapora was found involved in the instant case, accordingly he was arrested on 21-09-2020 in the instant case.

Police statement added that during the course of investigation, it came to fore that the accused person was having some personal enmity with some persons of the area and in order to defame them among the general public, he had prepared posters on the letter head of fake outfit and pasted them at public places.

The accused is working as a teacher in a private educational institute at Pampore. On his arrest, the locals of Kakapora area, particularly those mentioned in the posters have hailed the Police action. The investigation of the case is going on.