SRINAGAR: Indian authorities have detained a French journalist in Kashmir where he was making a documentary on security in the disputed territory, officials said yesterday, reports AFP.

Police said Paul Comiti was detained on Saturday in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, because of visa irregularities.

Comiti, 47, told AFP that he had been followed before his arrest on Saturday.

The intelligence services “were very nervous and had been following me for several days”, Comiti said by telephone from the Kothi Bagh police station where he was still in detention on Monday.

According to Comiti, he was taken to the station by security forces after going to a demonstration on human rights in the territory that is also claimed by Pakistan.

Police told AFP that Comiti had been held because he entered India on a business visa rather than one for journalists.