In Jammu and Kashmir, a court in Jammu today remanded three publishers to 10-day police custody in connection with the alleged publication and circulation of books allegedly glorifying separatist leaders.

Akashvani Jammu Correspondent reports that the Counter Intelligence Unit in Jammu arrested the three publishers yesterday as part of its ongoing probe into the controversy over certain books supplied to government libraries that were allegedly found to contain material glorifying separatists.

The books in question are ‘Personalities and Legends of J&K’, authored by Hilal Ahmad and Santosh Meena, and published by Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service, and ‘Great Personalities of Jammu and Kashmir’, authored by Sushant Giri and published by the Delhi-based Anurag Prakashan. The arrested publishers–Inderpaul from Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora from the Noida-based Dominant Publishers were virtually produced before the court, which granted the police remand to facilitate further investigation into the case. Previously, both Oberoi Book Service and Dominant Publishers had been blacklisted by the government.