Fahad Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla, an independent news outlet in Indian-administered Kashmir, was accused of publishing “anti-national content” and arrested under the country’s anti-terror and colonial-era sedition laws in February 2022.
Director-general of police Rashmi Ranjan Swain on Saturday vowed a tougher anti-militancy campaign, promising action against writers “hiding behind freedom of speech and expression” but whose “writings” are believed to have incited youth to pick up arms
The Kashmir Walla founder Shah was arrested under UAPA, nearly 11 years after the publication of an article titled ‘The shackles of slavery will break’ in his magazine in 2011
The Court passed the landmark ruling while granting bail to Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah in a UAPA case registered against in relation to an article published on the news portal The Kashmir Walla in 2011.