Srinagar, May 7 -- The police on Tuesday detained senior Kashmiri journalist Hilal Mir for allegedly "disseminating content on social media to disturb peace", police said in a statement.

J&K police's counter intelligence, Kashmir (CIK), detained Mir, a resident of Bemina in Srinagar, and seized digital devices, including a mobile and a laptop. "The radical social media user, operating social media X account 'hilal mir' and Facebook account 'Mir Hilal', used to disseminate extremist/distorted content with an intention to disturb peace and promote disaffection and secessionist ideology and present India in a bad shape," the statement said.

Mir has been a journalist for more than two decades and worked at two prominent local dailies. He al...