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Kashmir Police register case for text book depiction of cops as
'cruel'
Monday December 19, 2011 09:57:07 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: Police have
registered a case against the chairman and some other officials of
the Jammu and Kashmir school education board for depicting the
local policemen as "cruel" in one of the vernacular school text
books.
"We have registered a case of sedition, defamation and criminal
conspiracy against those officials of the board of school
education J&K responsible for supervision and publication of a
picture in one of the board's Urdu text books depicting policemen
as 'Zalim' which means cruel.
"We have started questioning of those responsible and law will
take its course," a senior police officer told IANS here.
In one of its vernacular text books titled 'Baharistan-e-Urdu',
which is part of the prescribed course, the state education board
has described a person in uniform with a bamboo stick as 'cruel'.
Board authorities said they were making inquiries as to how the
picture got into the text book and instructions has been issued to
delete the picture from the text book.
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