A day after the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered the forfeiture of 25 books, the Indian police have launched a valley-wide searches of bookstores to ensure compliance with the ban.  Police teams, as per the details visited several bookstores in Srinagar, Sopore, Ganderbal, Anantnag, Kulgam and other towns, verifying inventory and removing any listed titles that had been declared as “forfeited” under Section 98 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. 

Officials said the searches are being conducted that no banned material remains in circulation or reaches the public domain. “Bookstore owners have been directed to cooperate and immediately report any stock of the listed books.”  The authorities on Wednesday announced the forfeiture of 25 books by authors such as Arundhati Roy, Piotr Balcerowicz, Hafsa Kanjwal, Christopher Snedden, Mohammad Yosuf Saraf and Essar Batool.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)