The Modi government has approved the establishment of the Finger Print Bureau in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir for screening and profiling the Kashmiri population as part of its designs to suppress the freedom sentiments in the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian media reports in this regard said 73 posts have been sanctioned for the aforesaid bureau in occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, January 1, 2024.
The Finger Print Bureau will be headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police rank official, and will be assisted by one Superintendent of Police and two Deputy Superintendents of Police. A total of 22 Sub-Inspectors and 28 selection-grade constables will also be part of the new wing.
The bureau will help Indian army, police, paramilitary forces and investigation agencies to conduct record checks by analyzing fingerprints from existing records.
The bureau will prepare a comprehensive database of fingerprint records of the Kashmiri people including organizing, indexing, and updating the database regularly to ensure quick and accurate retrieval of information when needed.
Indian government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is keen on rewriting school textbooks with an ultimate aim of furthering its Hindutva ideology in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury speaking at the seminar of the new education policy said, “The BJP wants to transform the character of the Indian republic from a secular democratic republic to a Hindutva nation,” has said.
Yechury said attempts are being made in textbooks to glorify Hindutva rule and falsify the period under Muslim kings, emperors and sultans.
Yechury highlighted demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the construction of the Ram Temple on its ruins as an example of the dominant narrative the Hindutva BJP party wants to impose in India.
Criticising the new education policy, the CPٰI-M leader said it seeks to mount an assault on reason and rationality, aimed at creating consciousness in favour of a Hindutva Rashtra. The core content of the new education policy, he said, was meant to nurture the transformation of the Indian republic’s character.—KMS
