{"id":202340,"date":"2026-06-05T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=202340"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:36:29","slug":"indian-police-restrict-tourist-movement-to-several-areas-in-baramulla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/06\/05\/indian-police-restrict-tourist-movement-to-several-areas-in-baramulla.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian police restrict tourist movement to several areas in Baramulla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202341\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/06\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police have prohibited the movement of tourists to the interior areas of Baramulla district, including Mulbangil and Batoo via the Hajibal-Babareshi route, citing safety concerns and the lack of adequate tourist infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, in an advisory, police said there has been a recent increase in tourist visits to the remote areas, with some tourism service providers, guides and transport operators reportedly facilitating such trips.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory stated that the Qazipora\u2013Ziran\u2013Batoo\u2013Mulbangil\u2013Hajibal route is not part of any notified or recognised tourist circuit and passes through isolated terrain where emergency response facilities and visitor support infrastructure are either limited or unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>To safeguard visitors and prevent travel to areas not designated for tourism activities, authorities have imposed an immediate restriction on movement along the route until further orders.<\/p>\n<p>Police have directed hotel owners, guest house and homestay operators, travel agencies, tour operators, taxi drivers, tourist guides, pony operators and other stakeholders not to advertise, organise, facilitate or encourage visits to the restricted areas.<\/p>\n<p>Police teams will be deployed at strategic locations to ensure compliance with the order.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities warned that any individual or establishment found violating the restrictions or facilitating unauthorised tourist movement would face legal action under the relevant provisions of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police have prohibited the movement of tourists to the interior areas of Baramulla district, including Mulbangil and Batoo via the Hajibal-Babareshi route, citing safety concerns and the lack of adequate tourist infrastructure. According to Kashmir Media Service, in an advisory, police said there has been a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/06\/1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202342,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340\/revisions\/202342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}