Despite an additional affidavit filed by the Editor-in-Chief of Kashmir Times, Prabodh Jamwal, the Supreme Court on Thursday chose to defer hearing the petition filed by the newspaper’s Executive Editor Anuradha Bhasin till September 16.

Bhasin in her petition filed in the third week of August had complained that the suspension of Internet and Broadband facilities in Kashmir besides mobile telephony had made it impossible for journalists to do their work and for newspapers to bring out their editions. The court had then given the Centre a week’s notice to respond.

On Wednesday Jamwal filed a supplementary affidavit and informed the apex court that at the Media Centre set up in Srinagar, Intelligence and Security personnel were checking emails of journalists. All media persons, the affidavit claimed, were required to furnish details of people they were calling from the Centre.