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Kashmir’s top police official asks media to not come close to encounter sites, avoid live coverage
The media bodies said the direction seems to be part of measures taken by authorities to suppress freedom of press in the region. Representative image. | Reuters file photo
Kashmir Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar has asked media to not come close to encounter sites and cases where there is a law and order situation. Confirming the development on Wednesday, Kumar told
Scroll.in he has issued directions to the media and ordered them to not carry live coverage of these incidents.
“The freedom of speech and expression is subject to reasonable restrictions that should not violate other person’s right to life guaranteed under Article 21 or putting the national security in jeopardy,” Kumar said. “Do not interfere in professional and bonafide duty of police and security forces at encounter site.”
J-K Police Ban Live Coverage Of Encounters, Law-And-Order Situations
It is an attack on freedom of press, say journalist bodies File photo outlookindia.com 2021-04-08T21:53:53+05:30
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A media advisory issued by the inspector-general of police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, asking mediapersons to stay away from encounter sites and law-and-order situations have caused anguish among the media fraternity in the Valley.
“Journalists cover encounters for facts, information (vital in a democracy). It is a call to duty,” tweeted senior journalist and editor of the Kashmir Times Anuradha Bhasin.
The IGP has issued directions to the police that media shouldn’t be allowed “to interfere in the professional and bonafide duty of police and security forces at encounter sites and during law- and-order situations.” The IGP has asked “media persons not to come closer to the encounter site and law-and-order situation and do not carry any live coverage of any encounter
Media Bodies In Kashmir Anguished Over Comments Attributed To IGP Kashmir
SRINAGAR: The media bodies in Kashmir on Wednesday expressed anguish over the comments attributed to Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, saying that if this is a part of the official policy of police then it appears to be a tactic to coerce journalists into not reporting facts on the ground.
The statement in this regard issued to the news agency KNO was endorsed by the Journalist Federation of Kashmir (JFK), Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG), Kashmir Working Journalists Association (KWJA), Kashmir Press Photographers Association (KPPA), Kashmir News Television Journalist Association (KNTJA), Kashmir Video Journalists Association (KVJA), Kashmir Press Club (KPC), Kashmir Journalists Association (KJA), Anjuman Urdu Sahafat, Kashmir Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), Jammu and Kashmir Press Association (JKPA) and JK Editors Forum (JKEF).