Jammu, July 9 -- Four days after Jammu and Kashmir authorities slapped a ban on the controversial textbook Personalities and Legends of J&K, one man remains a ghost - its co-author, Hilal Ahmed, has simply vanished.
Highly placed sources reveal that the Counter Intelligence wing of J&K Police has launched an intensive manhunt to trace the elusive author, who allegedly glorified convicted terrorists and separatist figures within the pages of a government-approved school textbook.
The case has already claimed its first casualties, with eight Education Department employees suspended over the book's publication and distribution. But it is the disappearing act by Hilal Ahmed that has investigators most rattled, throwing the entire question of ...