STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: State Investigation Agency (SIA), assigned with the duty of investigation and prosecution of terror related cases in Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has conducted searches at several locations in Srinagar on Sunday.
The searches were conducted in connection with FIR 01/2022 registered under sections 13, 18 of UA(P) Act read with sections 121, 124, 153-B and 120-B of IPC at Police Station JIC (SIA) Jammu, against the author of seditious article Abdul Aala Fazili, Editor and other associates of monthly digital magazine ‘The Kashmir Wala’.
The article titled ‘The shackles of slavery will break’ written by Abdul Aala Fazili and published in the Monthly Digital Magazine ‘The Kashmir Wala’ on the one hand is highly provocative, seditious and intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, 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.
It is pertinent to mention that Abdul Aala fazili, BSc BPharma, MPharma (Pharmaceutics) is a PhD scholar in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kashmir University. Government of India paid him Rs 30,000 per month for five years till March 2021 through UGC MANF (Maulana Azad National Fellowship) so that he can sustain himself and complete his PhD which entitled him to earn Rs 30,000 per month.
The searches for collection of evidence, by the sleuths of SIA of J&K were conducted in the office of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ at Rajbagh, at residence of Abdul Aala Fazili at Main Chowk Humhama and at residence of Fahad Shah (Editor of the magazine) at Soura, Srinagar. The search teams also seized incriminating evidences, including computers, laptops and other digital equipments.