"Getting serious about Islamic writing and holding onto them from book shops is ludicrous," says IIOJK's central minister
February 19, 2025
SRINAGAR: India's police in Indian Unlawfully Involved Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have assaulted many bookshops and held onto many duplicates of books by an Islamic researcher, igniting furious responses by Muslim pioneers.
Police said look depended on "valid insight with respect to the secret deal and dispersion of writing advancing the philosophy of a prohibited association"
Officials didn't name the creator, yet storekeepers said they had held onto writing by the late Abul Ala Maududi, pioneer behind the ideological group Jamaat-e-Islami.
Indian Top state leader Narendra Modi's Hindu-patriot government prohibited the IIOJK part of Jamaat-e-Islami in 2019 as an "unlawful affiliation".
New Delhi restored the boycott last year for what it said were "exercises against the security, uprightness and power" of their country.
Casually dressed officials started assaults on Saturday in the primary city of Srinagar, prior to sending off book seizures in different towns across the Muslim-larger part locale.
"They (police) came and removed every one of the duplicates of books created by Abul Ala Maududi saying these books were prohibited," a bookshop proprietor in Srinagar told AFP, asking not to be named.
"These books were viewed as disregarding lawful guidelines, and severe move is being made against those tracked down possessing such material," police said in a proclamation.
Police said the hunts were directed "to forestall the course of restricted writing connected to Jamaat-e-Islami".
The assaults started outrage among allies of the party.
"The held onto books advance great virtues and mindful citizenship," said Shamim Ahmed Thokar.
Umar Farooq, IIOJK's main minister and a noticeable pioneer upholding for the right to self-assurance, denounced the police activity.
"Taking action against Islamic writing and holding onto them from book shops is ludicrous," Farooq said in a proclamation, it was accessible online to bring up that the writing.
"Policing thought by holding onto books is silly — without a doubt — in the hour of admittance to all data on virtual roadways," he added.
Pundits and numerous occupants of IIOJK say common freedoms were definitely shortened after Modi's administration forced direct rule in 2019 by rejecting IIOJK's unavoidably cherished halfway independence
