With Kashmir on its eighty-eighth day on unrest, the situation in the valley far from normal, it was yet another hectic day in the Kashmir Reader newsroom on October 2. In the evening, five policemen entered its office, armed with an order issued by the district magistrate (DM) of Srinagar, Farooq Lone. The newsroom staff was told to stop work immediately. The order, a copy of which is in possession with Newslaundry, reads, “On the basis of credible inputs it has been observed that the daily newspaper namely Kashmir Reader published within the territorial jurisdiction of district Srinagar contains such material and content which tends to incite acts of violence and disturb peace and tranquility.”

