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Srinagar: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir Police raided the office of Kashmir Times in Jammu on Thursday (November 20), in what the outlet’s owners have termed as an “attempt to silence independent media”.

According to reports, the Kashmir Times office was raided in connection with a case filed by the SIA over “threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India” and “spreading disaffection” and “glorifying secessionism”.

The details of the case have not been shared by the officials yet.

However, Anuradha Bhasin, the executive editor of the daily, who has been reportedly named in the SIA’s first information report, alleged that they were being targeted for “speaking truth to power”.

The outlet is run by Bhasin and her husband Prabodh Jamwal, also a senior editor there, and both are based out of the country.

In a joint statement, they said that the SIA’s allegations were “designed to intimidate, to delegitimize, and ultimately to silence… independent media” in Jammu and Kashmir.

Earlier, reports said that an SIA team recovered “AK-47 cartridges, pistol rounds and three grenade levers” from the........

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