RTI blinds on Sindoor media online gag: Ministries refuse to disclose blocking orders

Two Union ministries have rejected RTI requests for details on the blocking of some 8,000 social media handles, including those of several news outlets and journalists, soon after Operation Sindoor began on May 7.

Among the X handles blocked were those of Kashmir Times managing editor Anuradha Bhasin, Maktoob (a media outlet), Free Press Kashmir, The Kashmiriyat and Muzammil Jaleel, deputy editor with The Indian Express.