The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of J&K on Thursday said it had raided the office in Jammu of Kashmir Times — one of the oldest English newspaper houses in the region – as part of its probe in a case against the organisation for its alleged “involvement in criminal conspiracy with secessionist and other anti-national entities”.

Following the searches, which started at 6 am at the Residency Road premises, the SIA said it had allegedly recovered “one revolver, 14 empty cases of AK-series weapon, three live AK rounds, four fired bullets, three grenade safety levers” and “three suspected pistol rounds”.

The newspaper’s owners and editors, Anuradha Bhasin and husband Prabodh Jamwal who are believed to be in the US, condemned the searches in a statement while describing the accusations a

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