Srinagar: Police on Saturday registered a case against unidentified persons under the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act, and later arrested two persons.
“A case under FIR number 76 of 2025 has been registered at Nigeen police station into the incident at Hazratbal on Friday in which the national emblem was damaged,” officials said.
The case has been registered under sections 300 (voluntarily disturbing an assembly lawfully performing religious worship or ceremonies), 352 (addresses intentional insults intended to provoke a breach of the peace or another offence), 191 (2) (rioting), 324 (cause wrongful loss or damage to any person or the public) and 61 (4) (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS.
Two persons identified as Mohammad Sultan Bhat, son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Alesteng Ganderbal; and Amir Ali Bhat, son of Ali Mohammad Bhat, a resident of Syedpora Dhara, Harwan, were arrested last evening following the incident at the Hazratbal shrine, police said.
