Srinagar, April 17 (UNI) Sleuths of State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday conducted searches at various places in “terror related” cases and recovered incriminating material in Srinagar, officials said.
“The searches were conducted in connection with FIR No. 01/2022 u/s 13, 18 UA(P) Act read with sections 121, 124, 153 B and 120-B IPC of Police Station JIC (SIA) Jammu, against the author of seditious article Abdul Aala Fazili and the Editor and other associates of monthly digital magazine ‘The Kashmir Wala’,” the SIA said in a statement.
The search teams have seized incriminating evidence, which includes material in computers, laptops and other digital equipment.
The SIA said, “The article titled ‘The shackles of slavery will break’ written by Abdul Aala Fazili and published in the monthly digital magazine ‘The Kashmir Wala’ is highly provocative, seditious and intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir.”
It said the article was written with the purpose of “abetting the youth to take the path of violence by glorifying terrorism” and on the other the write-up “promoted and propagated the false narrative”, which is essential to sustain “secessionist cum terrorist campaign aimed at breaking the territorial integrity of India”.
The article has used prescriptive language with instructional intent, encouraging secessionist elements to carry out “terror activities”, the statement said.
Abdul Aala fazili, BSc Bpharm, Mpharm (Pharmaceutics), is a PhD scholar in the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Kashmir University.
