The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has ordered The Caravan magazine to take down a story it published on the subject of the Army’s alleged “torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu,” the Delhi-based monthly said in a statement on X. The order, which The Caravan says it will challenge, targets an article that was part of a series of articles on the magazine’s February issue on “The Military Under Modi”.
Screams from the Army Post: The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu written by the journalist Jatinder Kaur Tur, reports among other things on allegations by civilians in Poonch and Rajouri, two heavily militarised districts in Jammu. The report documents allegations that the Army was torturing and sometimes killing civilians under suspicions of involvement in terrorist activity.
This included interviews with the family of a registered Intelligence Bureau informer in the region, who was picked up for questioning after the December 22, 2023 terrorist attack in Poonch that killed four Army men, and died shortly thereafter. The report says that ‘blood money’ was paid by senior military officials to the family of the informer after his body was returned to them.
