New Delhi: A former Air Vice Marshal, the grandnephew of freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose, a former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and a prominent interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir have approached the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court seeking to set aside the Union Territory’s home department order banning 25 book titles for “promoting secessionism” and “inciting violence against the Indian state”.

On Tuesday, advocate Vrinda Grover mentioned the application before the J&K and Ladakh HC chief justice’s bench and sought its urgent listing. Since the application has been moved under section 99(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the Chief Justice said he will look into the papers and then order the constitution of a special bench of three judges to hear the

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