The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday sealed the Srinagar office of Kashmir Times , a leading english daily of the Valley, PTI rep...
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday sealed the Srinagar office of Kashmir Times, a leading english daily of the Valley, PTI reported.
The English daily is headquartered in Jammu and is published from both the divisions of the Union Territory. The building, located in the city’s Press Enclave area, was sealed by the government’sEstates Department officials is the office of Kashmir Times. The space was allotted to them in the early 1990s, according to The Indian Express.
Anuradha Bhasin, the executive editor of the newspaper, accused the administration of waging a vendetta against the daily for taking a critical stance about government policies. She told PTI that no notice of cancellation or eviction was served against them and “nothing in writing” was given either.
Bhasin said it was “peevish” of the Estates Department to lock the office without any due process, the “same way as I was evicted from a flat in Jammu, where my belongings including valuables were handed over to the ‘new allottee’”. Bhasin was evicted from her official residence in Jammu two months ago.
“Vendetta for speaking out! No due process followed. How peevish!” Bhasin tweeted, sharing a picture of Estates officials locking the Kashmir Times office at Srinagar’s Mushtaq Memorial Press Enclave.
Bhasin said the action was due to vendetta against her for speaking out against...
