: ‘No fetters on press freedom’: J&K High Court quashes FIR against journalist #IndiaNEWS The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed a First Information Report against a journalist, describing

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‘No fetters on press freedom’: J&K High Court quashes FIR against journalist #IndiaNEWS
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed a First Information Report against a journalist, describing the case as an attack on the freedom of the press, Bar and Bench reported on Wednesday. The journalist, Asif Iqbal Naik, was booked for publishing a report on custodial torture by the police.Justice Rajnesh Oswal held on Tuesday that the manner in which the FIR was registered clearly reflected mala fides on the part of the police, who chose a “unique method� of silencing the reporter.“Needless to say that press is often referred to as the fourth pillar of democracy and freedom of the press is vital for the functioning of any democratic country like India,� the court said.It added: “No fetters can be placed on the freedom of press by registering the FIR against a reporter, who was performing his professional duty by publishing a news item on the basis of information obtained by him from an identifiable source.�Naik, who is associated with local newspaper Early Times and also Times Now, had published the story about custodial torture in 2018 with the headline “Father of 5 brutally tortured by Kishtwar Police�.Naik had reported that a man identified as Akhter Hussain was tortured by the police while in illegal confinement. Hussain had suffered critical injuries and was admitted...Read more

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