While legacy and independent news publishers look at the subscription model as the way forward in the post-pandemic years, an Indian probe agency suspects this revenue mechanism can be used by “unscrupulous elements” to pump money and foment trouble in Jammu and Kashmir.
This is what the State Investigation Agency’s chargesheet – against journalist Peerzada Fahad Shah and Kashmir University scholar Abdul Aala Fazili – filed before an NIA court in Jammu indicates, the Indian Express reported. They were arrested last year. It has been alleged that Fazili wrote a “seditious” article published by Shah’s digital magazine, The Kashmir Walla, in 2011.
