Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Nov 30: A physiological operation to disrupt communal harmony has been launched from Pakistan after the alleged derogatory religious remarks uploaded on social media by an NIT student, an official said here.
The official said that it has been launched post NIT incident with a pattern to disrupt the communal harmony in Kashmir through social media posts. He said that back to back tweets were shared from the accounts which were suddenly activated.
He said that new accounts were created and it was followed by the fake western handles.
“Many handles that started hashtags, whose inciting post went viral, have started disappearing. Suspicious handles tweet links who are following a pattern and trying to disturb law and order. The toolkit is operating from Pakistan,” he said.
The official said that aim was to disrupt the peace and communal harmony in Kashmir with such posts on X and other social media platforms.
Soon after this there was an alert in Kashmir with District Magistrates of various districts asking people to refrain from all sorts of misuse of all social media networking platforms.
An official order issued by DM Kupwara read that some anti-national persons or groups are resorting to misuse of social-media networking platforms on internet by ‘preparing’ or ‘posting’ or ‘spreading’ or ‘propagating’ by way of ‘forwarding’ or ‘sharing’ incendiary messages and propaganda of terrorist and separatist outfits.
“Such activities are being carried out with intention to glorify terrorist and their actions, intimidate and terrorise individuals or general public or sections of public, exhort member(s) of public to resort to violence by inciting, encouraging and spreading disaffection/hatred, propagate terrorist and secessionist ideology and false narratives and promoting fell of hatred, ill-will on religious ground and likely to disturb public order and tranquillity,” the order read.
“Such acts on part of these anti-national persons or groups are prejudicial to the security of the state, maintenance of law and order and are likely to disturb the public tranquility. Such acts on the part of these anti-national persons or groups are aimed at terrorising common citizens and public functionaries from discharging their lawful duties,” read the order.
“In exercise of powers conferred upon me (District Magistrate) by section 144 CrPC 1973, I, Ayushi Sudan, District Magistrate, Kupwara do hereby prohibit and order the general public to refrain from ‘posting’ or ‘uploading’ or ‘propagating’ by way of ‘forwarding’ or ‘sharing’ any messages or content as mentioned with immediate effect within the limits of District Kupwara”, read the order.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar was closed for winter vacation today – 10 days ahead of schedule – as a precautionary measure, a day after protests against a student’s social media post spread to other institutes.
The Islamia College of Science and Commerce suspended all classwork and internal examinations scheduled for the day.
While NIT Srinagar declared a holiday for Thursday, the Dean of Students Welfare issued a circular announcing winter vacation in the engineering institute from today. The circular also directed all students living in the hostels to vacate the boarding facility with immediate effect.
Non-local students left the institute in the afternoon in a convoy of 15 vehicles under security escort to Jammu for onward journey to their respective home states, officials said.
The Registrar of the institute said the winter vacations “have been preponed only by 10 days” and there will be no academic loss for the students.
“We have winter vacations every year and the same is the case this year also. The vacations were scheduled from December 9 but have been preponed,” Registrar Ateekur Rehman said.
Asked about the ongoing examinations of the students, he said the students will write the remaining papers upon their return after the winter vacation. “We will ensure that there is no academic loss for the students,” he added.
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