Raja Mohi ud Din, the owner of KT Press, said his press was also shut down. “Police seized newspaper copies in thousands besides printing material and plates of a few newspapers,” he said. This is the first time authorities have imposed such a gag on newspapers following week-long violence across south Kashmir. Police barged into the offices of Kashmir’s largest-circulating English newspaper Greater Kashmir around midnight and asked the employees to stop printing. Police raided the offices of major newspapers in Srinagar early on Saturday, seizing tens of thousands of copies and shutting down a major printing press in an unprecedented crackdown on print media following widespread violence in Kashmir.

Source: Hindustan Times July 16, 2016 04:41 UTC