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WhatsApp groups with Pak admins behind crowd mobilisation in J&K

The police have launched a massive crackdown on such underground and fake news WhatsApp groups in Pulwama district. These groups mobilise crowds to help the militants escape from search-and-cordon operations.

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Investigators are suspecting a Pakistani hand behind the crowd mobilisation to disrupt anti-militancy operations in Kashmir valley. The Jammu and Kashmir police have found at least two WhatsApp groups with Pakistani numbers as administrators, which were allegedly involved in rumour-mongering and crowd mobilisation during anti-militancy operations in south Kashmir.

The police have detained at least 65 people, 11 group admins and 54 members, and uncovered 30 WhatsApp groups, which were allegedly passing off rumours to bring in crowds to encounter sites. "Many times, people did not know that they were part of such a group," said Rayees Mohammad Bhat, Superintendent of Police, Pulwama, told DNA..

"Some of these WhatsApp groups had Pakistan numbers with administrators. That is something which we are seriously looking into. Some of the WhatsApp groups are local attempts to foment trouble," said Bhat.

The police have launched a massive crackdown on such underground and fake news WhatsApp groups in Pulwama district. These groups mobilise crowds to help the militants escape from search-and-cordon operations.

Security forces have been battling protests and stone-pelting mobs for some time now. One 15-year-old boy, Amir Nazir, was killed when a stray bullet hit him during the protests that erupted near the encounter site at Padgampora village of South Kashmir's Pulwama district on March 9.

Stone-pelting mobs have been defying Army chief General Bipin Rawat, who had warned protesters against trying to disrupt anti-militancy operations.On February 24, he had called for coordinated efforts by all security forces to tackle the stone-pelting mob.

"There are hundreds of numbers. Some are these groups were claiming to passing off news but were in fact trying spread fake news. If they were news groups, there would have been positive news as well. But such groups had always negative news," said Bhat.

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