J&K Police objects to BBC article on Kashmir media situation, says it has right to take legal action

The article titled ‘Any story could be your last – India’s crackdown on Kashmir press’ was published on Friday.

https://scroll.in/latest/1055315/j-k-police-objects-to-bbc-article-on-kashmiri-journalists-says-it-has-right-to-take-legal-action

#kashmir #JKPolice #BBC #PressFreedom #media #journalism #AsifSultan #TheKashmirWalla #censorship #UAPA #SIA #DraconianLaws #india

J&K: Principal, teacher booked for thrashing student who wrote ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on school board

The boy has been hospitalised and the police have arrested the teacher. The teacher and the principal have been booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 75 (cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.

https://scroll.in/latest/1054954/j-k-principal-teacher-booked-for-thrashing-student-who-wrote-jai-shri-ram-on-school-board

#kashmir #kathua #HateCrime #ChildAbuse #JKPolice #IPC #law #india

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AbdulAlaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #FCRA #PublicSafetyAct #DraconianLaws #JKPolice #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #NIA #JKSIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #jammu #FahadShah #incarceration #journalism #PressFreedom #censorship #JKpolice #TheKashmirWalla #HumanRights #UAPA #PSA #NIA #SIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

J&K: Inquiry Is ‘Official Cover-Up’, Says Family of Man Who Died of Suicide After He Was Summoned

Mukhtar Hussain Shah's family has sought a judicial probe into his death and alleged that the order of the magisterial inquiry was “full of discrepancies” and that the "order reads like an attempt to cover up the truth."

#kashmir #poonch #PoonchAttack #terrorism #JKpolice #torture #suicide #HumanRights #india

https://thewire.in/rights/jk-inquiry-is-official-cover-up-says-family-of-man-who-died-of-suicide-after-he-was-summoned

Jammu & Kashmir: Iltija Mufti slams CID for getting ‘country-specific’ passport

Former J&K chief minister’s daughter says the government wanted to make an example out of her family ‘so as to stop people from raising their voice’.

#kashmir #IltijaMufti #JKpolice #CID #OfficialSecretsAct #UAE #KiranPatel #UnionGovt #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/jammu-kashmir-iltija-mufti-slams-cid-for-getting-country-specific-passport/cid/1928089

'PMO conman' in J&K opens a can of worms

By the time Kiran Bhai was arrested on March 3, he had posed as a PMO official to visit the Line of Control, the snow-packed Gulmarg meadows and the Dal Lake.

#kashmir #security #PMO #LoC #JKpolice #BJP #IPC420 #KiranBhai #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/pmo-conman-in-jk-opens-a-can-of-worms/cid/1923283

At A Time Of Economic Distress, J&K Land Eviction Drive Imperils Livelihoods

Traders. Scrap dealerships. Apple farmers. Hoteliers. Hundreds in diverse professions have seen their land—from high, rural pastures to city shopping complexes—seized and properties demolished, after Jammu and Kashmir was reduced to a union territory in August 2019. The rights to many of these lands were provided by previous state governments, some were gifted by erstwhile monarchy, others were encroached.

#kashmir #jammu #LandEviction #evictions #demolitions #displacement #LandGrab #SriNagar #anantnag #SMC #JKgovt #JKpolice #muslims #article370abrogation #HumanRights #CivilRights #india

https://article-14.com/post/at-a-time-of-economic-distress-j-k-land-eviction-drive-imperils-livelihoods--640ea6bd0db85

Army Court Sentences Captain Involved in Amshipora Fake Encounter to Life Imprisonment

The court has held that Captain Bhoopendra Singh, of the Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles then based in South Kashmir’s Shopian district, “exceeded powers vested under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act” during the encounter.

#kashmir #amshipora #rajouri #shopian #AFSPA #FakeEncounters #IndianArmy #62RashtriyaRifles #HumanRights #militarisation #JKpolice #india

https://thewire.in/security/army-court-sentences-captain-involved-in-amshipora-fake-encounter-to-life-imprisonment

What government data says – and doesn’t – about militancy in J&K since the scrapping of Article 370

While there has been a clear drop in militant violence, the figures revealed some worrying trends.

#kashmir #article370abrogation #militancy #militarisation #pandits #muslims #JKPolice #UnionGovt #india

https://scroll.in/article/1042061/what-government-data-says-and-doesnt-about-militancy-in-j-k-since-the-scrapping-of-article-370

A 33-Year-Old’s Disappearance After Detention In Kashmir Reveals Latest Abuse Of Law For ‘Disturbed Areas’

Despite his family’s trauma, the army detention of a 33-year old with no criminal record from his home on a freezing night in December 2022 was legal, since the military has had sweeping powers to arrest or shoot terror suspects in Kashmir for 32 years. But what followed, from the accounts of the family, local police and sarpanch—and the interpretation of India’s law for ‘disturbed areas’ by two retired generals—was a violation of that law and the army’s own procedures, as Abdul Rashid Dar became the latest of more than 8,000 Kashmiris to disappear since the 1990s.

#kashmir #kupwara #kunan #AbdulRashidDar #disappearance #IndianArmy #JKPolice #AFSPA #HumanRights #APDP #muslims #MastIndia #india

https://article-14.com/post/a-33-year-old-s-disappearance-after-detention-in-kashmir-reveals-latest-abuse-of-law-for-disturbed-areas--63b784e9a6c45