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Srinagar: A court in Jammu on July 13 (today) remanded three publishers to 10 days of police custody in connection with the investigation into the school books case. The development comes a day after the three were arrested by the Counter-Intelligence Jammu (CIJ) over their alleged role in publishing and distributing books that investigators claim contain objectionable material.

The accused have been identified as Inderpaul Singh of Oberoi Book Service, Jammu, and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers. They were produced before the court virtually. The arrests followed coordinated operations in Jammu and Delhi as part of an expanding probe into the publication and circulation of the books.

The controversy centres around 251 copies of two books, one titled Personalities and Legends of J&K, co-authored by Hilal Ahmad and Santosh Meenam and published by Oberoi Book Service, Jammu, and the second, titled Great Personalities of Jammu and Kashmir, authored by Sushant Giri and published by Anurag Prakashan, Delhi.

The two books were supplied to government school libraries under the Union government’s Samagra Shiksha scheme. Politicians across party lines have condemned their content. According to the........

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