SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir police have denied charges that they are restricting freedom of press by intimidating media persons.IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, in a statement released here on Thursday, said, “With reference to a claim by certain groups that freedom of press is being curtailed, before making such broad generalisations people should ascertain the facts.”On Monday, police had registered cases against a journalist of a national newspaper for allegedly publishing “fake news” and a Facebook user for uploading anti-national posts with “criminal intention”.Kumar, in his statement, said that only one reporter was questioned about journalistic work and only one FIR with charges of instigating people to resort to violence had been registered over an encounter in Shopian. The other two persons had not been booked for any journalistic work but for posting “explicitly seditious, incendiary and incriminating texts on social media, challenging sovereignty and integrity of India and attempting to instigate people for violence,” he added.The IGP said that one of the two, a Facebook user, had recently met him along with 3-4 members of Kashmir Press Club and accepted the mistake claiming ignorance of the relevant law and assured not to repeat it. The IGP has assured an impartial investigation.Regarding the other booked person, Kumar said there were written complaints that he exposed lives of peaceful and law-abiding citizens to grave risk by posting incriminating and provocative adjectives against them on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter . “The content of these specific complaints discloses a criminal act and law will take its course and the written complaints against this individual will be investigated as mandated by law,” he added.