The police are empowered to seize all copies of these 25 books after searching all locations. A plain reading of the provision indicates the permissibility of this notification being enforced throughout the country, with the J& K police approaching jurisdictional magistrates in other states for warrants to search and seize these 25 books from bookstores around the country! [15]PUDR draws attention to four aspects of this “book ban”. Each claim advanced in the order has no empirical evidence to make any causal link between any one of the 25 books and acts of violence. The State operates in Jammu and Kashmir – much as in the instant book ban – on grounds of national security and terrorism.