The raid at the office of the newspaper Kashmir Times in Jammu is a “ direct assault on press freedom ”, Digipub News India Foundation, an association of independent digital news organisations and journalists of which Scroll is a member, said on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Jammu and Kashmir’s State Investigation Agency raided the office of the news organisation, alleging that it was involved in “anti-national” activities. On Friday, the agency claimed that it had recovered arms and ammunition, along with other incriminating material, during the raid.

The editors of Kashmir Times, Prabodh Jamwal and Anuradha Bhasin, described the accusations as “baseless” and said that the “coordinated crackdown” was yet another attempt to silence the news organisation.

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