India, Aug. 8 -- After cracking its whip against the 'terror ecosystem' and choking their channels of funding, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has now trained their guns against the authors who have chronicled 'The Story of Kashmir' through 'tumultuous' times by declaring at least 25 books as 'forfeited' for propagating secessionism, glorifying terrorism, and posing a threat to national integrity and public order.
A notification (S.O.203) issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Home Department on August 5 invoked Section 98 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, to declare the books "forfeited," citing their "false narrative" and role in "misguiding the youth" of Jammu and Kashmir.
The banned books, among others, include 'Azadi' aut...