J&K Police officer lashes out at BBC Urdu for justifying truck driver’s murder by stone-pelters
He wrote in a series of tweets: “In this @BBCUrdu story the reporter presumes on behalf of rioters that truck would be carrying security forces,thus killed the truck driver. What a shameful justification of murder by learned journalist! Shame needs to die of shame. RIP Journalism.”
On Tuesday, Jammu and Kashmir Police Officer Imtiyaz Hussain lashed out at BBC Urdu for justifying the heinous murder of a truck driver in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BBC Urdu justified the murder claiming that the ‘truck would be carrying security forces and thus killed the driver.
He wrote in a series of tweets: “In this @BBCUrdu story the reporter presumes on behalf of rioters that truck would be carrying security forces,thus killed the truck driver. What a shameful justification of murder by learned journalist! Shame needs to die of shame. RIP Journalism.”
He later said that the website had deleted the controversial line, but he still had a screenshot.
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He added: “It’s important to portray a truthful picture of Kashmir situation because a lot of Pakistani boys reading these BBC Urdu exaggerated stories widely shared on social media get motivated to join terrorist ranks & come to Kashmir creating trouble. Truth is the ultimate causality in journalism driven by agenda. Wish we had reporters on ground reporting truth. Absolving murderers is no journalism.”
Many Indian commentators have accused several foreign publications including BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and even NYT of biased coverage over the Kashmir unrest.
Journalist Kanchan Gupta had told DNA earlier: “I totally disagree with western channels like the BBC and Al Jazeera as they have an agenda. The BBC has done it earlier, too, when they showed footage of tanks rolling in from Chechnya and describing it as Kashmir. The government should allow the western media to operate and then discredit their false reports once and for all. There is counter-reporting happening and this is a chance to expose the western media. The New York Times is reporting on India sitting in the US. What is its credibility?”
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur had also lashed out at BBC and said: “He wrote on Twitter: “Hey @BBCWorld .. each time you call #kashmir ‘Indian Occupied Kashmir’ I keep wondering why you refuse to call Northern Ireland ‘British Occupied Ireland’ ?”
England has a bloody history with Ireland. The British Crown continued to violently put down any call for home rule from the people and the potato famine of the 1840s saw around 2 million Irishmen killed.
A truck driver died after being hit by stones during stone-pelting in Bhijbhera on Sunday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Noor Mohammad, a resident of Zradipora Urnhall Bhijbhera. The accused stone pelter has been identified and arrested.
The victim suffered head injuries during the stone-pelting. He was shifted to a hospital in Soura but succumbed to his injuries and was declared brought dead.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police said the stone pelters pelted stones on his vehicle mistaking it as security forces vehicle.
"#Stonepelters kill truck driver. A truck driver Noor Mohammed resident of Zradipora Urnhall Bhijbhera was hit by stone thrown from a lane at Bhijbhera this evening. The stone pelters pelted
stones on the Truck number JK03 F 2540 taking it as a SF vehicle," the Jammu and Kashmir Police said in a series of tweet.
The stones reportedly pierced the pane and injured the driver in the head. "The stone pierced the pane & injured driver in head. He was rushed to nearby Bhijbhera hospital where from he was referred to SKIMS Soura. He, however, succumbed to his Injuries & was declared brought dead. The stone pelter has been identified and arrested," police said.
A murder case has been registered at Police station, Bhijbhera in this regard.
Police said a few days back a girl was seriously injured in a stone-pelting incident in downtown Srinagar and a case has been registered in that case as well.