KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Youth Akali Dal Amritsar Monday strongly condemned the move of banning Kashmir Reader, a Srinagar based English newspaper.
Terming the move as “autocratic and undemocratic”, chief organizer of YADA, S Papalpreet Singh, said, “on one side Indian state claims itself to be a largest democratic country in the world but in practice it doesn’t refrain from muzzling the fourth pillar of democracy.”
Expressing solidarity with Kashmir Reader, S Papalpreet Singh sought revoke of ban on Kashmir Reader.
Using the powers of Newspapers Incitement Act, Press and Publications Act and section 144 of Cr PC (Code of Criminal Procedure), the Deputy Commissioner of Srinagar imposed ban on Kashmir Reader accusing it for publishing the content “vulnerable to peace and tranquillity of J&K territory”.
The order issued by Deputy Commissioner of Srinagar reads, “there are sufficient reasons to invoke the powers vested in me by Section 144 Cr PC (Code of Criminal Procedure) read with Section 3 of News Papers Incitement of offences Act, 1971 and Section 10 of Press and Publication Act, 1989 and proceed further in the matter by passing a conditional order of stopping the printing and publishing of News Paper namely Kashmir Reader through printing presses mentioned above.”
