Home Ministry is all set to convene a high-level meeting on Monday to discuss the removal of malicious content from various social networking sites posted by “Keypad Jihadists”.These types of Jihadists are the ones who use internet with a venomous intent to create a law and order situation by spreading rumours or giving communal colour to any event.
The meeting which will be attended by top officials from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Department of Telecommunications and those from security agencies as well as Jammu and Kashmir, will be chaired by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba.
The 3 main agendas of the High Level Meeting are the implementation of the provisions of Information Technology pertaining to security agencies in dealing with the menace which includes filing of FIRs, removal of the malicious content at the earliest in coordination with the service provider and ensuring speedy legal proceedings so that it could act as a deterrent for others.
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The move to crack down “Keypad Jihadists” is to alleviate the time wastage of the security agencies to concentrate more on the elimination of the terrorists with real guns.
The officials opined that it was the virtual battleground where a bloody war was fought, but with words and that had an impact on the young minds. If we view this in a wider scenario, we will be able to see the threat posed by the “Keypad Jihadists” and their use by terrorist organisations like ISIS world over to carry out lone-wolf attacks and native attacks at their respective countries.
Home Ministry officials hinted at these kinds of new age threats where the battleground is a virtual world, which acts as an initiation to create the terrorists in the real world to carry out attacks or to disturb the law and order machinery in the state. In the Kashmir valley, new age Jihadis use computers and smartphones to wage war from just about anywhere in the valley or outside the valley. Sometimes the perpetrators of the attacks may be sitting cosily at their homes, or sipping a coffee from a cafe or maybe just walking by a roadside while their tools may be doing the OPs for them.
The social Chat groups active in J&K are identified with participation from youngsters in the National Capital Territory, rest of the world and abroad as well.
Jammu and Kashmir police had registered cases against 5 Twitter handles and filed complaints with the service providers against misleading posts on Facebook and Whatsapp.
The Home Ministry ponders over a quick action in concern of the upcoming Amarnath Yatra as one sitting in one’s home may be able to plant fake news in any one of the thousand chat groups which may escalate into a communal riot.
The officials claimed that they had seen instances when desecration of shrines of a particular community was posted and circulated in social media which created a sudden outrage when actually no such desecration happened.
In Kashmir Valley similarly, fake news about firing and subsequent civilian death was circulated to create unrest in other parts of Kashmir. The timely actions by the Police sometimes saved the day and they ensured that the culprits were booked.
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