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The Press Club of India (PCI) connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) criticised the Jammu and Kashmir Police for its determination to “orally summon respective journalists, including Srinagar-based reporters of astatine slightest 3 nationalist dailies, for questioning without providing them with circumstantial reasons portion doing so”.
In a statement, the PCI said, “The reporters person been questioned implicit routine, fact-based reports based connected publically disposable accusation — a wide effort to forestall them from fulfilling their duties arsenic journalists.”
“The information that 1 of these reporters had to walk 15 hours implicit 4 days successful Srinagar’s Cyber Police Station and was told to motion a enslaved saying that helium would not ‘disturb the peace’ indicates the harassment being unleashed connected journalists successful the region. Such arbitrary actions make an wide ambiance of fear, wherever journalists cannot spell astir their regular jobs and workout their law close to enactment freely,” it said.
Demanding that the J&K authorities let journalists to discharge their duties without fearfulness of intimidation and coercion and travel owed process successful their interactions with journalists, the PCI said, “India’s vibrant ideology stands connected the shoulders of a escaped and fearless press; actions similar this enactment to undermine that tradition.”
