Kashmir Journalist Fahad Shah granted bail by special court
Srinagar (PTI): A local court here on Thursday granted bail to journalist Fahad Shah, arrested earlier this year.
According to Shah's lawyer Umair Ronga, the editor of online portal 'The Kashmir Walla' was granted bail by a special court designated under the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008.
"Special court designated under NIA today granted bail to the chief editor of @tkwmag @pzfahad in FIR No 70/2020 P/S Safakadal and FIR No 19/2022 P/S Pulwama," Ronga said in a tweet.
He said there was still one case pending in Jammu against the journalist.
"We have also challenged his detention under the Public Safety Act. It will come up for hearing on December 15," Ronga added.
Shah was arrested in February this year for "glorifying terrorism, spreading fake news, and inciting general public against law and order."
Besides Jammu, cases have been registered against him in Pulwama, Shopian, and Srinagar.
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Protesters had attacked Dasna temple, police should have shot '10-20' people: BJP MLA Nand Kishore
Ghaziabad(UP), Oct 6: BJP MLA from Ghaziabad's Loni seat Nand Kishore Gurjar has alleged that the crowd which had gathered on Friday night to protest against Yati Narsinghanand had pelted stones at the Dasna Devi temple here and police should have "shot" the attackers.
If 10-20 people had died, there would have been no rioters, the MLA is purportedly heard saying in a video that has appeared on social media.
A large crowd had protested on Friday night outside the Dasna Devi temple, where Narsinghanand presides, against his remarks on Prophet Muhammad. The controversial priest is facing multiple FIRs in the matter.
A case was also registered against 150 people in Wave City police station on the complaint of Dasna police post in-charge Sub Inspector Bhanu regarding the protest.
Gurjar alleged that there was stone pelting on the temple on Friday night and said, "The attack on the temple is an attack on Sanatan Dharma."
The police "did a drama of lathi charge at night, but the police should have shot 10-20 people and then encountered them. This is an attack on the entire Hindutva. If 10-20 people die in a night, then there are no people who create such ruckus,'' he said.
In the video, the BJP MLA is arguing, ''When slogans of 'Sar Tan Se Juda' are raised, do the people of Hindu society go and pelt stones at a mosque like this?''
"It is an attack on the faith of Hindus, so NSA (National Security Act) should be imposed on everyone and those who are not arrested should be killed in an encounter by announcing a reward," he said
Defending Narasinghanand, he said, ''What Maharaj ji said is a different matter, and now with the kind of attacks that are constantly happening on Sanatan Dharma, daughters are being killed, the situation in Bangladesh, it is natural that he might have said something in anger.''
Security of the temple has been increased after the incident.
Narsinghanand has several cases registered against him, including for allegedly delivering a provocative speech at a conference in Haridwar in December 2021.
मैं नहीं जानता कि लोनी विधायक पर पार्टी की गाज कैसे गिरेगी, पर धन्यवाद उनका कि उन्होंने उसी शब्द में क्लिपकटुआ पंचरपुत्र के जीजा-बापों की भीड़ का प्रत्युत्तर दिया जो अपेक्षित था। पार्टी बाद में है, पहले मंदिर है, हिन्दू धर्म है और हिन्दू हैं। pic.twitter.com/KCfOxHIVtV
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