Srinagar, April 09, 2023 (PPI-OT):Indian police on Sunday acknowledged that 805 applications of Kashmiri people for passport were rejected in the past three years in the name of curbing “anti-India propaganda machinery”. Among those whose applications for issuance of passport were rejected included politicians, businessmen, students and journalists and human rights defenders. It said the current initiatives taken by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters have yielded dividends as the misuse of passports by “anti-national elements” has shown a downward trend.
The police said 143 passport applicants including a prominent businessman and a journalist have misused the facility and became part of the propaganda machinery to spread hatred against India. In order to ward off criticism from international human rights organizations, the police further said, “The course correction was made from time to time to defeat the nefarious designs of anti-national elements, who are changing their trends to deceive the security forces, first by choosing the targets with clean records and later on radicalising them to resort to activities which suit them to accomplish their nefarious designs”.
It said, “Deep vetting was mandatory to check the activities of religious leaders, politicians, lawyers and journalists to put curbs on anti-India propaganda machinery and to expose them. A good number of violators were put on exit control.” The people privy to the development said that the actual number of those whose applications for passport were rejected was, in fact, in thousands.
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