Earlier, Fahad Shah was granted interim bail by a special court of NIA in an Unlawful Act registered at police station Pulwama. SRINAGAR โ Jammu and Kashmir police Saturday arrested journalist Fahad Shah in another case hours after a special court granted interim bail to him in an Unlawful Act registered at police station Pulwama.…
โWe also urge you to arrange the immediate release of other detained Kashmiri journalistsโ Sajad Gul, Aasif Sultan, and Manan Gulzar Dar โ all of whom, like Shah, have been jailed under anti-terror or preventative detention laws in apparent retaliation for their work.โ SRINAGAR โ The International Press Institute and 57 other rights groups and…
The Kashmir Walla in a statement said that Shahโs legal team will now move to a special court designated under National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act to secure bail. SRINAGAR โ The police remand of Fahad Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla, was extended by 7 days on Monday, February 14. Earlier, on February 5, Shah…
According to the new policy, accreditation is liable to be withdrawn or suspended if a journalist โacts in a manner prejudicial to the countryโs security, sovereignty and integrity, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in any relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offenceโ. NEW DELHI โ…
โShah had been questioned four days earlier for his reporting on a deadly police raid in Pulwama in late January that left four people dead. He has been summoned and detained multiple times for his writing over the past few years.โ SRINAGAR โ The Editors Guild of India Sunday condemned the arrest of Fahad Shah,…
Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla, was arrested late Friday evening. SRINAGAR โย A district court in Pulwama has remanded journalist Fahad Shah to police custody for ten days. Shah was arrested by police on February 4. Quoting sources, a local news gathering agency KNT, reported that Fahad Shah, Editor-in-Chief of The Kashmir Walla, was produced…
โThe Guild reiterates its earlier demand that status quo before the January 14th order of Registrar of Societies be restored with respect to the functioning of the Club, and that the state works towards building and protecting the space for a free press.โ SRINAGAR โThe Editors Guild of India has expressed anguish over the shutting…
The government needs to review its decision and restore the Kashmir Press Club to its elected members. The illegal coup party should be told to prepare for polls and for that, re-registration should be done. Brushing aside the brouhaha created by the illegal takeover, the administrationโs decision to hand over the Kashmir Press Club building…
Pertinently, a group of โdisgruntled journalistsโ led by Times of India reporter Salim Pandit forcibly took over the club premises on Saturday with the help of armed forces. SRINAGAR โ The Jammu and Kashmir administration Monday cancelled the allotment of the Kashmir Press Club. The administration statement said that it was concerned over the emergent…
โThe officer said that another case was registered against Gul โ2/2022 under section 153B, 147, 148, 149, 307 Indian Penal Codeโ, earlier this month.โ SRINAGAR โ A day after the court of Judicial Magistrate Sumbal in north Kashmir granted bail to arrested Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday evening said…