Srinagar- Jammu and Kashmir Police have allegedly seized literature affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), a religious-political organisation, which has been banned in Jammu and Kashmir for the last six years. Police teams arrived at several bookshops in the city centre and seized over 650 books, officials said.
“Based on credible intelligence regarding the clandestine sale and distribution of literature promoting the ideology of a banned organisation, police conducted a search in Srinagar, leading to the seizure of 668 books. Legal action has been initiated under Section 126 of the BNSS,” Srinagar district police said in a post on X.
Under Section 126 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, an executive magistrate can order a person “to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond or bail bond for keeping the peace for such period, not exceeding one year, as the magistrate thinks fit”.
MP Ruhullah Questions Move
Member of Parliament leader Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi described the move as “unacceptable overreach,” demanding the order must be revoked immediately.
“Interference in the religious affairs of Kashmiri Muslims is crossing a red line—it is blatant state oppression and intolerance. First, the Shab-e-Barat prayers at Jama Masjid were barred, and the masjid itself was sealed. If that wasn’t enough, there are reports of police seizing literature by Maulana Maududi (RA),” he posted on X.
“Will the state now dictate what Kashmiris read, learn, and believe? This is an unacceptable overreach. If such an order exists, it must be revoked immediately.”
The state must stop harassing Kashmiris and meddling in their religious affairs, warning, “The cost of this reckless exercise will be heavy, he added.
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