Srinagar: The authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have withdrawn 4,249 books from circulation in colleges and libraries across the territory after declaring them “objectionable,” the Legislative Assembly has been informed.

3,996 books were withdrawn from institutions in the Kashmir division and 253 from the Jammu region, highlighting the much larger scale of the scrutiny in Kashmir.

The government told the Assembly that a total of 21,81,582 books and publications had so far been examined, including 12,48,641 in Kashmir and 9,32,941 in Jammu.