New Delhi: For the second time in just over a month, Meta has taken down The Wire’s ground report on Jammu and Kashmir-based pellet gun victims on Wednesday (August 12) night. The Wire has received no communication from Meta before these posts related to the article ‘Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors Describe What Happens After the Pellets Stop Flying’ were taken down from social media platforms Facebook and Instagram.“We restricted access to this content through an automated system implemented pursuant to legal requirements under India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,” Facebook and Instagram mentioned explaining why the posts were taken down.The Wire’s article ‘Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors Describe What Happens After the Pellets Stop Flying’ was taken down from Instagram on August 12. Photo: Instagram/The Wire.The article which was published on Wednesday and was taken down from both the platforms later in the night, focused on how pellet victims, whose lives were permanently altered by their injuries, were struggling on a daily basis even after ten years. The victims also underlined how they were triggered by the recent use of pellet guns on largely peaceful protesters who marched to parliament on July 20 leading to the resignation of former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.The Wire’s article ‘Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors Describe What Happens After the Pellets Stop Flying’ was taken down from Facebook on August 12. Photo: Facebook/The Wire.“Delhi doesn’t know what pellet victims go through – and I hope its people never find out, and this ends with Jantar Mantar,” said Mohammad Ashraf speaking to The Wire’s journalist Pragya Singh and Junaid Dar.Also read: Nijjar, Bishnoi, Satluj and Parliament: What The Wire’s Censored Social Media Posts Talk AboutNarrating his ordeal, Ashraf, a resident of Rahmoo village in Pulwama district, mentioned how he was “showered” with “a volley of pellets” into his torso from five or six feet away when Special Operations Group and Rashtriya Rifles raided their village on August 28, 2016.A screengrab of the posts taken down by Instagram on August 12. Photo: Instagram/The Wire.The report highlighted that Ashraf’s family has spent roughly Rs 8-9 lakh on his treatment, which included nine surgeries, selling part of their land and from their savings. Further, Ashraf said that pellet injuries are worse than bullet injuries as they “never heal”.Ashraf had started an association of survivors in 2017 through which around Rs 9 lakh were raised for pellet gun victims. But he now avoids even the calls of survivors as police and security agencies started troubling him for this work in 2019.Also read: Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors Describe What Happens After the Pellets Stop FlyingBesides Ashraf, the article also captures the struggles of other pellet gun victims like Insha Mushtaq who was only 14 when she was attacked and once dreamt of becoming a doctor and Amir Band who is a lawyer and unsuccessfully tried to seek a ban on pellet guns by filing a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir high court.Similarly, on July 1 both Facebook and Instagram withheld The Wire’s posts on Dar’s story ‘Bollywood is Mocking Our Suffering, Say Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors On ‘Chauhaan’ Trailer Dialogue’ which highlighted how the trailer of Ajay Devgn’s upcoming action film Chauhaan rekindled painful memories for thousands of Kashmiri pellet gun survivors.Also read: Bollywood is Mocking Our Suffering, Say Kashmir’s Pellet Survivors On ‘Chauhaan’ Trailer DialogueSince February 2026, more frequently since last month, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube have withheld for Indian audiences at least 22 posts created by The Wire and The Wire Hindi in line with government orders. The posts which were taken down contained reports on Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Nikhil Gupta’s pending sentencing, US government’s indictment against gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, protest art in Jantar Mantar, Arunachal group’s claims on Chinese encroachment, censorship of Satluj, cartoons on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among others.