{"id":28396,"date":"2025-11-22T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28396"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:04:01","slug":"indian-force-raid-news-office-in-iiojk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28396","title":{"rendered":"Indian force raid news office in IIOJK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Indian counter-terrorism units raided the office of The Kashmir Times over its alleged role in a \u201ccriminal conspiracy\u201d, police said, with the news website calling the accusations \u201cbaseless\u201d on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The State Investigation Agency (SIA) said the search late Thursday was part of an investigation into the Kashmir Times over their alleged involvement in a \u201ccriminal conspiracy with secessionist and other anti-national entities operating within and outside Jammu and Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet rejected the allegations, and said the office that was raided has been shut for the last four years and \u201cout of operation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Kashmir Times, which started in 1954, became an online-only publication after one of its other offices was raided and sealed in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accusations levelled against us are designed to intimidate, to delegitimize, and ultimately to silence,\u201d the outlet wrote in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>SIA said it had seized a revolver, as well as a handful of live round and empty bullet cases, during the search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recoveries indicate possible unlawful possession and suspected linkages with extremist or anti-national elements, warranting further detailed investigation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also raided the residence of the Kashmir Times\u2019 owner Prabodh Jamwal.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement that the raids were \u201cdeeply troubling and raise concerns about increasing pressure on media outlets in Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government annulled the region\u2019s partial constitutional autonomy, several journalists in the region have been subject to harassment and arrests. Their publications and homes have also bene raided.<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have also carried out sweeping searches across the region since a deadly November 10 car explosion near Delhi\u2019s Red Fort, which security forces said was carried out by a Kashmiri suicide bomber.<\/p>\n<p>No connection has been made between the news site raid and the Delhi explosion.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian counter-terrorism units raided the office of The Kashmir Times over its alleged role in a \u201ccriminal conspiracy\u201d, police said, with the news website calling the accusations \u201cbaseless\u201d on Friday. The State Investigation Agency (SIA) said the search late Thursday was part of an investigation into the Kashmir Times over their alleged involvement in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}