SRINAGAR: A local court here has issued a notice to a Facebook admin in a defamation plea filed by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) “Smile Foundation” for allegedly circulating “malafide videos” against it. 

In an order, the court of Munsiff/Sub Registrar Srinagar Adnan Manzoor Naqashbandi, as per GNS, restrained the admin namely Mudasir Bashir, alias Mudasir Aziz, from 'interfering with the affairs of the NGO or uploading any video related to the organization.'

The court also directed admin to remove all the related content to the case in hand from his Facebook pages.

The admin has also been asked by the court to respond to the notice by the next date of hearing on March 26.

The plaintiff NGO was represented in the court by advocates Talib Hussain and Seerat Mehraj. 

According to the plea, Mudasir has been “managing” multiple Facebook pages with the names ‘Kashmir Youth Power’, ‘News Express’, ‘Mission Kashmir’ and Mudasir Aziz’ and “masquerading as a journalist to defame people and settle personal grudges”. (GNS)

SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency(NIA) on Wednesday searched the office of a Non Governmental Organisation linked to jailed human right activist Khurram Parvez in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, officials said

The search was carried out at the NGO office at Dandoosa area in Budgam in connection with an ongoing probe in an NGO terror funding case, they said.

The office that was searched has been shut since long time, sources said.

Khurram, the Kashmir-based rights activist, was arrested first by NIA in November 2021 in a case related to funding and recruitment of overground workers (OGWs) by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Jammu and Kashmir.

Last month, jailed Khuram was arrested in a separate case related to NGOs and trusts allegedly diverting funds meant for charitable activities to “secessionist and separatist activities” in Jammu and Kashmir. (UNI)