Religious preacher booked for making communal remarks in J-K's Rajouri

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered an FIR against a religious preacher for allegedly making sensitive remarks about a community, officials said Wednesday. A video surfaced on social media where religious preacher Moulana Mohammad Farooq is seen making sensitive comments against a community while delivering sermons at a religious congregation, they said.

"The hate remarks had potential to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of Rajouri," the officials said. The state police is also mulling legal action against the administrator of the social media page on which the video was uploaded, they added.

Recently, the Jammu Police booked a Facebook user for allegedly spreading hate messages in the city through the social media platform. The FIR was lodged after a Facebook post written by a person with user name Sandeep Sethi, were found to be provocative and hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community, the officials said.