Passion crime and the Internet

2

The young and restless Kashmir has arrived big time on the web. All these years it has sliced quite a bit of the network pie. Action-filled videos are posted every day on Youtube and chats on social networking fibre are common. Also popular are Twitter and podcasts. Cyber crime isn't. It was never until Maisuma murder unfolded. A 20-year-old spurned lover allegedly bludgeoned his friend after the latter chatted with his Delhi-based girl friend on an Internet leisure space. The girl had deleted Imran, 20, from the friends' list and included Asrar instead. Jilted, Imran called Asrar to his house on Srinagar outskirts, hit him fatally with an iron rod. With a friend's help, he then dumped the body near a graveyard in Rainawari, three km from his Maisuma. The killing provoked wave of violent protests in the city and a defensive police watched helplessly as mobs....