srinagar jammu and kashmir police have a new task at hand identify the keypad jihadis who spew venom on social networking sites to try and create a law and order situation in the state by spreading rumours on the internet or giving communal colour to any eventthe police have registered cases against five twitter handles and filed complaints with service providers against such misleading posts on facebook and whatsapp so that necessary action is taken at the earliest officials have saidthe officials said a communication had been sent to the microblogging site for providing details of the twitter handles so that punitive action could be initiated at the earliest as it would help in reining in what is called keypad jihadispolice have laid special emphasis on monitoring the social networking websites and also various groups created on messaging services like whatsapp telegram and similar such tools available on the internet they saidthe idea behind the crack down on keypad jihadis was to ensure that police could concentrate more on nabbing or eliminating terrorists with real guns rather than those who wage war against the state machinery using keypadsthe officials said that post2016 the misinformation campaign from some groups in kashmir as well as in jammu was at its peak with each party trying to project an incident for their political goals which had a potential of pushing the state to communal clashesthey said the new battleground and a new battle is far removed from the conventional weaponry and the conventional fighting zones of the narrow streets and forests where new age jihadis use computers and smartphones to wage war from just about anywhere in the valley or outside well entrenched inside their homes or out on the streets from a nearby caf or even just a convenient roadsidewe have passed on several complaints to the computer emergency response teamindia certin for blocking several pages on facebook and twitter said officials adding that many sim cards which were used to spread canards on messaging services like whatsapp have been blocked with the help of the service providerthe immediate worry for security agencies is the forthcoming twomonth long amarnath yatra beginning last week of next month and they fear that anyone while just sitting from the confines of a home can plant fake news in one of the thousand chat groups and the entire state can plunge into communal violence the officials saidthey claimed there have been instances when fake pictures of desecration of shrines are circulated by a particular community and all of sudden there is an outrage when no such incident had taken placesimilarly in the valley false news about firing and subsequent killing of civilians was circulated in an attempt to create unrest in other parts of kashmir however timely action saved the day for the police and it was ensured that the culprits were bookedthere have also been instances of circulation of photoshopped pictures of ordinary civilians as militants whereas the unknown victim would have been attending