Srinagar: Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul has been arrested and booked under criminal conspiracy and other charges days after he posted a video of a family shouting anti-India slogans after their kin (Salim Parray) was killed in harwan military The Kashmir Walla reported on Friday.
Gul, who works with The Kashmir Walla is a trainee reporter, was charged under sections 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), and 505B (fear or alarm to the public) of the Indian Penal Code.
The video posted by Gul had shown protest against the killing of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Salim Parray.
He was gunned down on Monday in the Harwan area on the outskirts of Srinagar. Minor protests had taken place after his killing in Hajin, in north Kashmir.
Gul was detained on January 5, his brother said.
Several people, including former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, condemned the police action.
Mufti said on Twitter that radicalized groups who are openly calling for the genocide of Muslims were roaming free while Kashmiri journalists who were reporting on “state-sponsored” human rights violations were being jailed.
The Kashmir Walla Editor-in-chief Fahad Shah said that journalism should not be criminalized.
“Our legal team is working to seek his earliest release,” he tweeted.
