Kashmiri Journalist detained by J&K police, released after interrogation

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter

Srinagar: Kashmir based Journalist and editor of online magazine The Kashmir Walla, Fahad Shah was on Sunday, June 18th detained for more than eight hours by JK police in Srinagar.


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Fahad was first detained at  police station Zadibal and later shifted to infamous CARGO, run by Special Operations Group (SOG) of J&K police.

“I was outside my house when police personnel from police station Zaidabal picked me up and first kept me at the police station and later shifted to the Cargo,” Fahad told TwoCirlces.net .

According to Fahad, the officials at CARGO questioned him about his recent trip to Pakistan. The police confiscated his phone and laptop.Later phone was returned to the journalist and laptop was retained by the police.

He was left off by the officials at 7 pm in the evening after interrogation.

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