SRINAGAR
A schoolteacher from Jammu’s Ramban was suspended on Friday for allegedly criticising the insurance policies of the J&Ok Lieutenant Governor’s administration, simply two days after a First Information Report (FIR) was lodged towards a scribe “for running news without the permission of the authorities” in the district. Besides, two homes and a store had been attacked by the police in a grenade assault case in Ramban’s Gool space.
An order issued by Mussarat Islam, District Magistrate of Ramban, mentioned after scrutinising Facebook pages, it has been discovered that Joginder Singh, a teacher posted at Chanderkote in Batote, “has posted various posts criticising or commenting adversely about the government policies on his Facebook page”.
“Besides, he has concealed his identity and made a fake Facebook ID with a profession as a socio-political activist and not a government teacher,” the District Magistrate mentioned, in the order.
Mr. Singh is positioned underneath suspension with quick impact, pending enquiry and for violation of instructions handed by the federal government relating to criticism of insurance policies of the federal government by its staff on social media platforms, Mr. Islam’s order reads.
J&Ok Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta, in a recently-held assembly, directed all the executive secretaries in the Union Territory (UT) “to monitor the social media networks on a regular basis and identify the employees criticising and commenting adversely on the government policies and achievements etc. on the social media”.
Two days in the past, an FIR was lodged towards a Ramban-based journalist, Mudasir Nazir, underneath Section 188 of the Indian Penal code (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant). According to the FIR, Ahmed, “a self-claimed journalist”, has been operating information with out the permission of the authorities, which violates the order of the District Magistrate, issued on August 6, 2022.
Ramban has earned the excellence of issuing guidelines to manage who practices journalism in the district. In May 2022, Mr. Islam referred to as for the registration of media teams in the district “to verify the antecedents and source of funding of all so-called journalists who operate illegal portals without any valid degree, qualification and authorisation from competent authority”. In September 2022, the Ramban district named at the very least seven native scribes as “banned persons who were seen masquerading as journalists”.
‘Police takedown
Meanwhile, residential houses and a shop of three persons, allegedly involved in militant activities, were attacked by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU), a special wing of the J&K Police, in Ramban’s Gool space.
Among the attacked homes included a single-storey home of Abdul Majid Lone at Sesal, a home of Mohammed Farooq, and a chemist store of Shahdin Padyar.
“The house owners have been restrained to switch, lease out, get rid of, change its (property’s) nature or take care of the mentioned property in any method with out the permission of police or the designated authority,“ a police discover learn.
The three accused, the police consider, had been concerned in a grenade hurling incident on the Gool police publish on August 2 final yr.
