Jammu : A team of the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted a raid on the Kashmir Times office in Jammu on Thursday.

Further details of the raid are awaited.

Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary asked the investigative agencies not to “pick-and-choose” media organisations for raids, saying there should not be any pressure on the press.

“The agencies are doing their work. If a raid has to be conducted, it should not be done on a pick-and-choose basis. If they have done anything wrong, action should be taken, but not just to create pressure. The Press is the fourth estate, and it should get space to practice journalism,” Surinder Choudhary told reporters.

Youth Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (JKPDP) chief Aditya Gupta criticised the raid,

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