'The Wire' asked top cops as to whether police have carried out independent threat assessments on corporator Shaheena Bhat and other alleged 'prominent persons' after Shahid Tantray's story was published. Police have not responded yet.
Turned away by the Foreign Correspondents Club and the Press Club of India, "The Kashmir Files" director Vivek Agnihotri says he has been banned "undemocratically" and will go ahead with a press conference at a five-star hotel on Thursday.
'Going by the series of attacks on mediapersons in the recent past, it could be inferred that these people are hell-bent on gagging the press in its entirety,' the statement reads.