Kishtwar police has registered a First Information Report (FIR) and also identified former PDP MLC, Firdous Tak and three others for raising ‘provocative’ slogans during protest demonstrations over the issue of arming village defence committee members with the state weapons.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Kishtwar, Shakti Pathak told The Pioneer, “a FIR has been registered in the Kishtwar police station and so far four individuals including former PDP MLC, Firdous Tak have been identified behind raising provocative slogans”.
“Wasil Doolwal,Nasir Baghwan and Arshad Giri were among those identified by the Kishtwar police along with PDP leader”.
According to official sources, “FIR no 163 U/S 153A/120B RPC dated July 19,2019 has been registered in the Kishtwar police station”.
Reacting to the police action, PDP leader Firdous Tak late Saturday evening posted another provocative tweet to vent his ire. “When administration is more answerable to Chadi-dharies and report to Nagpur. This is what happens when you speak about Sanghies in Modi’s New India”,Tak tweeted.
Another PDP leader Aijaz Ahmad Mir tweeted, “There are no words to condemn this action of registering FIR against PDP leader Firdous Tak for protesting against the plans to create more VDCs in Kishtwar. The soul of democracy is dying a slow death under the present rule .”
Tak along with his supporters had earlier organised a protest demonstration against the decision of the district authorities to revamp defunct Village Defence committees on Friday.
Labelling VDC members as ‘Godse brigade’ Tak had even doled out an open threat to the district authorities by claiming that to counter armed VDC members they will go to the extent of procuring their own weapons from the market.
He also vent his ire against the district authorities for not equipping them with the state weapons. “Those who have been replaced in the revamped VDC’s are not the representatives of the Hindu community but cadre of RSS”, Tak had claimed while leading protest demonstrations against the district authorities.
