Srinagar, Oct. 14 -- A full bench of J&K high court on Monday set December 4 as the date for hearing the batch of petitions against government's decision to forfeit 25 books in J&K.

In August, the J&K government's home department had issued a notification for "forfeiture" of the 25 books written by some prominent and acclaimed authors, political scientists and historians, including AG Noorani, Arundhati Roy, Sumantra Bose, Sugata Bose, Christopher Snedden and Victoria Schofield for allegedly propagating "false narrative and secessionism" in J&K. Most of these books are written on Kashmir conflict, politics, history and human rights.

The special bench of chief justice Rajnesh Oswal and justice Shahzad Azeem considered the pleas filed by ...