Acting on chief minister Omar Abdullah’s directive, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday registered an FIR against those who allegedly abused the Valley’s only all-girl rock band “Pragaash” on social networking sites, compell-ing them to disband. “Abo-ut half a dozen have been identified and will be arr-ested soon,” sources said.
One of the teenaged girls, meanwhile, told a television channel she and two other band members decided to chuck it not due to the online hate campaign but after a fatwa by Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Bashiruddin, which called their pastime “un-Islamic”. She said: “We quit for the happiness of our people.”