Tag: Jammu And Kashmir

  • LeT militant arrested in Jammu and Kashmir

    By means of PTI

    SRINAGAR: Safety forces on Sunday arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, police mentioned.

    He was once noticed throughout a naka checking close to Shuhama Nagbal.

    He attempted to escape after seeing the protection forces staff, however his strive was once foiled and he was once apprehended tactfully, a police spokesman mentioned.

    He known the arrested as Mohammad Altaf Wani, a resident of Keegam in Shopian.

    Incriminating subject matter was once recovered from his ownership, the spokesman mentioned, including that he was once a militant of the LeT.

    A case has been registered and investigation taken up, the spokesman mentioned.

  • Having nightmares nonetheless, Jammu and Kashmir acid assault survivor awaits regaining sight and seeing justice carried out

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: She wakes up in the dark and screams with tears rolling down her cheek because the reminiscence of February 1 acid assault nonetheless haunts her, say members of the family of a Jammu and Kashmir girl who’s ready to regain her sight and notice mild on the finish of the tunnel at a specialized eye clinic in Chennai.

    “We’ve got been together with her since February 1, the unlucky day when a monstrous individual threw acid on my sister’s face in downtown Srinagar. We dread that day,” says 22-year-old Arizoo Nisar, sister of the acid assault survivor.

    The circle of relatives is grateful to a businessman-turned-politician, who prefers anonymity, for bearing all clinic bills and to the Jammu and Kashmir executive for transporting them to Chennai and in addition expressed gratitude to police for finishing the investigation into the case in file time.

    “I’m positive that the culprits can be punished and their punishment would deter others having a an identical mentality,” her father Nisar Chilloo says.

    Arizoo says that her sister who has passed through six primary and minor surgical procedures thus far had some peace when she heard that the Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a price sheet towards all of the 3 accused.

    “She used to be having sleepless nights and steadily aroused from sleep in the dark with a shout to the members of the family to avoid wasting her from the monster who disfigured her by means of throwing acid on her,” Arizoo stated in a choked voice.

    She stated that she had knowledgeable her sister in regards to the police price sheet.

    “Most often she is quiet after the incident however that day she was hoping to look that justice is delivered quicker,” she stated.

    Her cousin Sajjad Misgar, who’s accompanying the circle of relatives to Chennai, stated docs have carried out 3 surgical procedures on her eyes thus far however since her left eye has contracted badly because of the have an effect on of the acid, whether or not she is going to get again her imaginative and prescient stays unsure.

    “The docs try their very best and gave her a stem mobile remedy to construct the power in her eyes. Allow us to stay our palms crossed and I’m positive that our prayers and efforts of the clinic will permit my sister to regain her sight,” Misgar stated.

    But even so the attention surgical procedures, 3 pores and skin grafting procedures were carried out to reconstruct her face, he stated.

    Suggest Mir Naveed Gul, representing the girl’s circle of relatives, recalled his first assembly together with her and stated “she is surely a courageous girl who has controlled to boost her voice towards the injustice. I’m positive someday she can be up on her toes and notice together with her personal eyes when the judicial machine offers with the accused on this case.”

    The Jammu and Kashmir Police just lately filed a 1,000-page price sheet towards 3 other people — Sajid Altaf Slightly and Mohammad Saleem Kumar alias Tota, and a juvenile towards whom the police have prayed for being handled as an grownup as in line with the amended Juvenile Justice (Care and Coverage of Youngsters) Act, wherein kids within the age workforce of 16-18 can also be attempted below the Indian Penal Code (IPC) if they’re accused of heinous crimes.

    The accused have been charged below sections 120-B (legal conspiracy) and 326-A (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm by means of use of acid) of the IPC.

    “We’ve got filed a water-tight price sheet and we can make a plea to the courtroom for a day-to-day listening to on this case. If a day-to-day listening to isn’t imaginable, we might request the honourable courtroom for a fast trial,” Senior Superintendent of Police (Srinagar) Rakesh Balwal had stated.

    The price sheet used to be filed inside 3 weeks of the incident to make sure swift and exemplary punishment to the accused and to discourage those that is also having such “barbaric” inclinations, officers stated.

    “The utmost punishment below those sections is existence sentence and the minimal is 10 years however we can press for optimum in order that it acts as a deterrent,” Balwal had stated.

  • J&Ok delimitation panel stocks revised draft record with affiliate participants

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delimitation Fee, mandated to redraw meeting constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday circulated a revised draft report back to its affiliate participants incorporating some adjustments prompt by means of them.

    5 Lok Sabha participants from Jammu and Kashmir — Farooq Abdullah, Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi of the Nationwide Convention and Jugal Kishore Sharma and Jitendra Singh of the BJP — are the panel’s affiliate participants.

    That they had prompt quite a lot of adjustments to the sooner draft record of the panel. The panel had met on Thursday and permitted lots of the ideas after due attention, resources stated.

    They stated the remodeled draft incorporating the ideas used to be circulated to the 5 affiliate participants on Friday.

    Of their objections and recommendations, the participants had prompt the panel to “redraw” some meeting seats. Their ideas referring to Habba Kadal seat in Srinagar and Suchetgarh seat in Jammu had been permitted.

    The fee has additionally agreed to not rename Inderwal meeting seat, resources stated.

    The Delimitation Fee on Jammu and Kashmir is headed by means of former Ultimate Courtroom pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, with Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the State Election Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir being its ex-officio participants.

    The affiliate participants had been requested to answer the newest draft in per week’s time.

    Later, the fee will put the draft in public area to get ideas from other people. It used to be just lately given a two-month extension until Might 6 to finish its activity.

  • Two terrorists killed in come upon in Jammu & Kashmir’s Shopian

    By means of PTI

    SRINAGAR: Two unidentified terrorists had been killed in an come upon with safety forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police stated. Performing on particular enter concerning the presence of terrorists in Amshipora space of Shopian in south Kashmir, safety forces introduced a cordon and seek operation there, a police professional stated.

    The quest operation changed into an come upon after the hiding terrorists fired upon the forces who retaliated, he stated. Within the resulting come upon, two terrorists had been killed, the professional stated. He stated the id and staff association of the slain ultras was once being ascertained.

  • Delimitation panel on J&Ok will get two months extension

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The time period of the Delimitation Fee, mandated to redraw the meeting constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, has been prolonged by means of two months to finish its process.

    The panel’s time period was once to finish on March 6, however in line with a Legislation Ministry notification issued on Monday, it’s been prolonged by means of two months — until Might 6 this 12 months.

    The panel wanted extra time to able its ultimate file, resources conscious about the explanations for the extension mentioned. Shaped in March 2020, the panel was once granted a one-year extension remaining 12 months.

    Headed by means of former Ultimate Court docket pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, it has Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the state election commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir as its ex-officio individuals.

    In its draft file shared with its 5 related individuals — all Lok Sabha individuals from Jammu and Kashmir — the delimitation panel has proposed an overhaul of meeting and Lok Sabha constituencies within the Union territory.

    Jammu and Kashmir at the moment has no legislative meeting. This is a union territory with a provision for a legislature.

    The Fee has requested the affiliate individuals to offer their inputs and objections to the draft within the coming days. Then they’d be requested whether or not their objections, if any, must be revealed earlier than the following draft is put out within the public area.

    As soon as folks proportion their inputs and objections, the panel would get started running at the ultimate file, the resources defined. Delimitation is the method of changing limits or limitations of territorial constituencies in a state or nation.

  • Vote just for PAGD allies within the subsequent J-Ok Meeting polls: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti

    Via PTI

    JAMMU: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday advised other people to vote for PAGD allies within the subsequent J&Ok meeting polls to defeat the BJP and its buddies, which, she mentioned, have been hampering the case of recovery of the Union Territory’s particular standing within the apex court docket.

    She additionally reiterated her name for a relaxed battle for the recovery of “snatched rights”, pronouncing the August 5, 2019 construction was once like an earthquake and its aftershocks are nonetheless proceeding with “this govt disposing of one thing each day from us”.

    The PAGD is a coalition of six events, together with the Nationwide Convention, PDP and CPI(M), in search of recovery of Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing below the revoked Article 370 of the Charter.

    The thing was once revoked through the Narendra Modi govt on August 5, 2019, a call which has been challenged through many events within the Excellent court docket.

    “Whether or not we stand united or combat one by one, it’s important to vote those that don’t betray your vote within the meeting. I request you to take this message to each corner and nook that we have got to select some of the PAGD constituents and vote for his or her applicants,” Mehbooba mentioned addressing a birthday party serve as at Surankote in Poonch district.

    She mentioned makes an attempt are directly to divide the folks and the meantime document of the delimitation fee was once a part of the method to pit Hindus as opposed to Muslims, Muslims as opposed to Muslims, Gujjars Vs Pahari- talking other people and one as opposed to different.

    Those makes an attempt are geared toward getting sufficient seats for the BJP and its other people in order that they are able to shape the following govt in J&Ok and put a stamp at the August 5, 2019 resolution to weaken “our case within the Excellent Court docket”.

    “The controversy of an election is untimely because the time has no longer come but however consider my phrases. If you don’t like PDP (candidate), vote for every other candidate some of the PAGD constituent and in addition if the opposite candidate isn’t of your liking, vote for the PDP candidate,” she mentioned.

    “You’ve got to select amongst them handiest and no longer vote independents or every other candidate,” the previous leader minister mentioned.

    She mentioned her birthday party or Nationwide Convention have no longer misplaced the rest by myself however it’s the other people of all of the J&Ok who’ve been disadvantaged in their rights and they have got to combat for the recovery in their “snatched rights”.

    Mehbooba mentioned August 5, 2019 was once no longer only a tragedy for the folks of Jammu and Kashmir nevertheless it struck them like an earthquake.

    “An earthquake ends inside of a couple of mins however we’re nonetheless being hit through aftershocks. They’re nonetheless snatching from us each day to complete our id, tradition and traditions. They’re forcibly disposing of land from the folks,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned the land which was once below the profession of the folks for over a century is being taken away to provide it to important industrialists in each Jammu and Kashmir areas and the way in which the federal government is operating, the day isn’t a long way when “our youths won’t get a foothold to rise up”.

    Mehbooba additionally criticized the federal government for the dismissal of state staff at the grounds of supporting militancy and large raids.

    “They’re doing the whole lot to wreck the spine of the folks of J&Ok. The unemployment is rising with each and every passing day and planned makes an attempt are being made to make other people poorer in order that they’re silenced and don’t seem to be ready to rise up,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned they would like “lifeless souls” because it fits their narrative of a relaxed surroundings in J&Ok which is, in reality, “the silence of a graveyard”.

    “The BJP is behaving just like the East India Corporate and the one distinction is that they’re from this nation. They’re promoting the nationwide assets at a large loss,” she mentioned, including “other people have to boost their voice in a relaxed way as Mahatma Gandhi did in opposition to the British rule”.

    Relating to the delimitation fee draft proposal to merge Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu with Anantnag Lok Sabha seat in Kashmir, Mehbooba mentioned as a substitute of giving a separate seat to the Rajouri and Poonch districts, they merged it with Anantnag Lok Sabha seat to sow the seeds of hatred some of the other people of Kashmir and this area.

    “The PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed constructed Mughal Highway to carry the 2 districts of Rajouri and Poonch nearer to Shopian district of Kashmir. They need to create a wedge as all sides want to have their very own Parliament member to constitute them and wish us to combat each and every different. There’s no different explanation why,” she mentioned.

    She alleged that they have got no ache for the area or Chenab valley.

    “They sought after to have just one face, one get dressed and one meals. The location may well be worse than this if we don’t rise up and combat their onslaught as graveyard form of silence fits them,” she mentioned.

    Protecting her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s resolution to shape the former govt with the BJP, Mehbooba mentioned, “It was once carried out to give protection to Article 370, state flag and charter below a method.

    It took Mufti 3 months to sew an alliance with the BJP and the federal government was once shaped on our phrases.

    “After Mufti’s demise, we functioned as in line with our time table which was once no longer in their style as they discovered us a drawback of their unique plan and the remaining is historical past,” she mentioned.

  • 2 terrorist friends arrested in Pulwama, Srinagar: Police

    In south Kashmir's Pulwama, safety forces introduced a cordon-and-search operation within the Rahmoo space according to explicit knowledge, a police spokesperson stated.

  • Two Military jawans killed in Shopian come upon in Jammu and Kashmir

    By way of ANI

    SHOPIAN: Two Military jawans have been killed all through an come upon at Chermarg within the Zainapora house of Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.

    Consistent with Kashmir Zone Police, the deceased military body of workers are known as Santosh Yadav and Chavan Romit Tanaji, each from 1 Rashtriya Rifles (RR).

    The police mentioned each the military jawans died because of deadly gunshot wounds round 9:30 am.A terrorist additionally died within the come upon that started previous within the day.

    Previous lately, an come upon broke out between safety forces and terrorists at Chermarg, Zainapora house of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir.

    (Additional main points are awaited.)

  • Northern Military Commander Lt Gen Dwivedi critiques safety situation in Kashmir

    By means of PTI

    SRINAGAR: The Northern Military Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi reviewed the safety state of affairs in Kashmir right through his three-day discuss with to the valley which ended on Wednesday.

    “The Military Commander was once briefed via Lt Gen D P Pandey, Normal officer Commanding Chinar Corps, at the prevalent safety state of affairs and measures instituted to counter adversaries’ design,” a defence spokesman stated right here.

    He stated the Military Commander had arrived right here on Monday on his maiden discuss with to Kashmir after taking on the reins of Northern Command of the Military.

    Lt Gen Dwivedi interacted with the senior officials of Chinar Corps and lauded the sturdy counter infiltration grid alongside the Line of Regulate, the spokesman stated.

    He stated the Military Commander additionally preferred the stern regulate exercised via the formation to abide via the ceasefire working out between the DGMOs of each India and Pakistan, which can whole three hundred and sixty five days on February 25, 2022.

    “For the hinterland, the Military Commander complimented Chinar Corps for the behavior of operations with precision making sure 0 collateral harm. He was once appreciative of the superb Soldier-Citizen attach actions, that have led to general relief within the terrorist recruitments,” the spokesman stated.

    Let Gen Dwivedi additionally paid homage to the 40 bravehearts of CRPF who had made the best sacrifice right through terror assault at the convoy 3 years in the past in Pulwama.

    The Military Commander additionally interacted with more than a few civil functionaries and individuals of the civil society. He preferred the speedy steps which are being taken via all companies for sustainable peace and construction of Kashmir. He lauded the synergy between all parts of the safety forces and the Civil Management.

  • PM Modi to preside release of commercial funding in J-K in March: LG

    PM Modi to preside release of commercial funding in J-K in March: LG