On October 19, the Jammu and Kashmir estates department sealed the Srinagar office of the Kashmir Times . The newspaper, one of the oldest ...
On October 19, the Jammu and Kashmir estates department sealed the Srinagar office of the Kashmir Times. The newspaper, one of the oldest English dailies in Jammu and Kashmir, had functioned out of the government allotted offices since the 1990s.
“Today, Estates Deptt locked our office without any due process of cancellation and eviction, same way as I was evicted from a flat in Jammu where my belongings including valuables were handed over to ‘new allottee’,” tweeted Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of the Kashmir Times. “Vendetta for speaking out! No due process followed. How peevish!”
On October 4, Bhasin had alleged that the brother of a former legislator from Jammu had barged into her government-allotted residential accommodation in Jammu and ransacked the place. She had been occupying the flat since 1999. Bhasin filed a complaint against the brother of the former legislator but no first information report has been registered yet.
The editor believes she is being targeted for filing a petition in the Supreme Court against the communications blockade imposed on August 5, 2019, when the Centre stripped Jammu and Kashmir of special status and split the former state into two Union Territories.
“The debilitating restrictions imposed through the complete shutdown on internet and telecommunication services, and severe...
