By Wasim Khan,AIP,
Srinagar: The state Police of Jammu and Kashmir today registered a case against a Delhi based private news television channel for allegedly instigating violence in a district in South Kashmir by running untrue news about the death of a person in police firing.
An FIR was filed in main Pulwama police station against the channel and its correspondents for running wrong news about the death of a youth in police firing despite repeated assertions by police that no such incident had taken place.
Reports said that, the news led to an angry protest in the district leading to imposition of curfew in the area again this morning besides leaving some security personnel injured in stone-pelting.
District officials had to go round the town announcing that no one was killed.
Later news channel apologize for running the wrong news.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Government will consider the option of withdrawing deployment of the army from the valley after the Martyrs’ Day on July 13 and the situation as of now was well under control, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today.
“Even now the army has not been brought into the city. It is only in the periphery, that too it was deployed two days ago,” he told a leading news agency of India in an interview.
Conceding that it was the most difficult decision for him to seek the assistance of Army from the Centre, the 40-year-old Chief Minister, the youngest in the country to occupy the post, said that it was one decision that he would not like to repeat in his term in the office. (Inputs with PTI)