Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 7: The Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar today remanded the three youth, arrested on charges of online abuses to the all-girl rock band of Kashmir, to 5 days police custody.
The three youth were arrested in nocturnal raid on their houses in Anantnag, Ganderbal and Srinagar after police identified around 12 youth who had posted abuses against the band.
Irshad Ahmad Chara, resident of S D Colony, Batmaloo, was arrested late last night by the police. He was arrested after police raided his house in the wee hours. Chara is a matriculate and has been a vegetable seller.
Another youth Tariq Khan, was apprehended from his house in SK Colony Anchidora, in South Kashmir district of Anantnag. His mother said that a police party from local police post General Bus Stand last night asked his family that he was wanted in the police post for investigations. He was later handed over to the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police Srinagar. Khan has done Masters in English Literature and is running a grocery shop in his locality.
The third youth, Rameez Ahmad Shah son of Mohammad Shafi Shah resident of village Baba Wayil, Gutli Bagh in district Ganderbal was also arrested last night. Shah is 12th standard student and he had also posted the abusive comment.
Police after viewing the 900 posts on the Pragash Facebook page found around 26 as abusive and they have identified around a dozen persons so far who posted them. Police in fact was tracking these posts for last one week and lodged an FIR on Tuesday in Police Station Rajbagh after they achieved break through.
Police sources said that one of the persons, Amir, who hails from South Kashmir is admin of Kashmir Live Facebook page. The pictures of the band appeared on this page first and large number of people later posted abusive comments on this page as well.
The all-girl rock band was formed by 10th standard students Noma Nazir, Farah Deeba and Aneeka Khalid last year. It won the best performance award in their first public appearance last December at the annual Battle of the Bands competition in Srinagar that was sponsored by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
After their performance at Indoor Stadium here, their pictures appeared on the Facebook and this was followed by the abusive comments and threats to this band. Finally media last week report and this prompted grand Mufti of Kashmir, Mufti Bashirudin Ahmad, to issue a fatwa declaring the singing of this band as an un-Islamic act.
A member of the band early this week said that they respected the decree of Kashmir’s grand Mufti and announced disbanding of the band. “
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