Teacher arrested for circulating threatening posters: Police

 

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Pulwama, Sept 29: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a private school teacher, who was allegedly involved in circulating threatening posters in Kakapora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

“On 10-09-2020, posters purportedly on behalf of Lashker-I-Islam were found pasted in Gundipora Kakapora area, which carries threat messages to some youth including few girl students,” a police spokesman said.

The posters, as per police, claimed 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 threatening.

“In this connection, locals of the area approached Police Station Kakapora and demanded legal action against the miscreants who had circulated the posters. Upon this, a case under FIR number 69/2020 under section 18,20 ULA(P) Act, 506 IPC was registered in Police Station Kakapora and investigation taken up. During the course of investigation, some suspects of the area were rounded up for questioning,” police said.

“During questioning, one of the suspects namely Muzamil Ahmad Dar, son of Farooq Ahmad Dar of Gundibagh Kakapora was found involved in the instant case, accordingly he was arrested on 21-09-2020 in the instant case,” the spokesman said adding, “It came to fore that the accused 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”. (KNO)

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