Have not supported the communication blockade in valley: PCI chairman

In a letter to N Ram, council chairman Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, referring to a news report published in an English daily on Wednesday that had a heading that 'PCI backing J and K curbs undemocratic: N Ram’, said that in his intervention application in the Supreme court, he had not supported the communication blockade.

"From a plain reading of the intervention application filed by the council in the Supreme court, it is evident that I have not supported the communication blockade," he said.

I will advise you to read the intervention application which is available on the website and point out a single sentence or a single word where I have “supported the communication blockade in the valley. I challenge, you will not find anything like that,’’ Justice Prasad said in his letter.

He said that the very premise of the news report was falsehood.

"According to the news report, you have allegedly stated that it was shocking that the PCI-that is supposed to protect the freedom of the press, independence of the press, freedom of journalists- had taken a position supporting the communication blockade in the valley."

"The very premise on which you have build this superstructure, mildly speaking, is a blatant lie. I am sure you have not read the ‘intervention application, filed by the council before the Supreme Court but greatly swayed by distorted media reports,’’ Justice Prasad said.