PCI to probe ‘harassment, intimidation’ of J&K scribes
The Hindu
The move comes after former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wrote a letter on September 27 to the PCI and the Editors Guild of India highlighting such cases.
The Press Council of India (PCI) has constituted a three-member fact finding committee to look into the alleged cases of intimidation and harassment of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir.
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It has asked the authorities in the Union Territory (UT) “to extend full cooperation and assistance to this committee for the discharge of its function”.

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