#Fact: None of the above-mentioned three “Journalists” was booked because they were journalists, but only because they were involved in different unlawful activities and registered FIRs based on their work.
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Example: Hatching a criminal conspiracy, harbouring & supporting terrorists, glorifying terrorism, aiding and participating in terrorism related activities, sheltering terrorists, spreading fake news etc.
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1)Sajad Gul, a Kashmiri Journalist, was arrested for hatching “criminal conspiracy”, the case was against his social media account being used to disseminate information “against the national interests” on the “dictation and guidance” from Pakistan based agencies.
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He had surfaced in FIR registered earlier this year under number 2/2022 under section 153B, 147, 148, 149, 307 IPC.
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2) Fahad Shah, who runs a news magazine “Kashmir Walla” was arrested on 04 Feb 2022 by J&K Police under UAPA charges. 3 separate FIR’s were registered against Shah and accused him of glorifying terrorism, spreading fake news & inciting the people for creating L&O situations.
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Shah has also been charged under Sections 147 (rioting), 307 (attempt to murder), 109 (abetment), 501 (printing or engraving defamatory matter) and 505 (public mischief) of the IPC.
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3) Asif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist, was booked under UAPA and various other sections of the RPC and IPC by the then govt in 2018. The charges against Sultan, who worked as an assistant editor at a local news magazine, include criminal conspiracy, harboring Terrorists,
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aiding and participating in terrorism related activities. A charge-sheet against Asif Sultan was filed by J&K Police for sheltering terrorist who killed a Police constable in a shootout in August 2018 at Batamaloo in Srinagar
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During the investigation, the police seized 17 sheets with the letterhead of the HM (Terrorist Outfit) from Sultan’s home at the time of his arrest. The Police dossier said that Asif Sultan came in contact with cadres of Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind, a terror outfit, who motivated
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him to work for the terror outfit as OGW to provide logistic support. Asif was also involved in aiding the “terrorist outfit, TRF & JeM”, which are a potent threat to the maintenance security of J&K.
Further, the cases of all these accused are pending before the court.
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Further, the cases of all these accused are pending before the court.
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The Kashmir Press Club, which was registered as a society in J&K, has “ceased to exist” after it “failed to reregister” under the Societies of Registration Act, a central law which was extended to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
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The Kashmir Press Club’s existing managing body “too has come to a legal closure on 14 July, 2021, the date on which its tenure came to an end”, the administration said in a statement.
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