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Action follows registration of FIR alleging organisation’s involvement in anti-national activities and attempts to spread disaffection against country

According to official sources, the FIR mentions alleged activities and communications that are under scrutiny for “potential threats to the sovereignty and integrity of India”.Kashmir Times editors Prabodh Jamwal and Anuradha Bhasin called the raids “yet another attempt to silence us”.

Jammu and Kashmir’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Thursday raided the office of the Kashmir Times, one of the oldest English-language news organisations in J&K.

The raids followed the registration of an FIR alleging the organisation’s involvement in anti-national activities and attempts to spread disaffection against the country.

Founded by journalist Ved Bhasin, the Kashmir Times has stopped publication of its print edition from Jammu for a while now and operates primarily online.

After Bhasin’s death, his daughter Anuradha Bhasin and her husband Prabodh Jamwal had taken over the reins of the newspaper.

However, both of them have moved to the US and have been staying there for some years now. Its website lists Prabodh as editor and Anuradha as managing editor.