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| J&K Judiciary can’t shut eyes to Army chief’s slur | | FAKE ENCOUNTERS | | | Bar chief Qayoom’s being ‘rabidly anti-India’ doesn’t mean courts have no credibility in J&K
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jan 17: In the middle of 2006, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) completed investigation in the infamous Pathribal fake encounter of March 2000. The Challan produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar, that happens to be designated court of CBI cases in Kashmir, established that men from a unit of Rashtriya Rifles 7th Bn had kidnapped five innocent civilians from their respective localities in Anantnag district and subsequently killed them all with the label of “foreign terrorists responsible for massacre of 35 Sikhs at Chittisinghpura on March 20, 2000”.
It was probably for the first time that an “Indian” institution had established its credibility in 16 years of the conflict in the Valley. Those found guilty of killing innocent civilians included five officers. One of them, who headed the unit as a Major in 2000, had reached the rank of Brigadier and was posted somewhere in Maharashtra.
Even as CBI contested that special ... | |
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| Ex-MLC's son, cop, PHE employee among 4 narco-smugglers held at Kapurthala with superfine heroin worth Rs 10 cr | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 17: In a drug trail that leads to Poonch and the neighbouring Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), Punjab police today laid hands on four narco-smugglers, including an ex-MLC's son, a traffic police cop and a PHE employee, all alleged to be international drug traffickers, at Kanjali in Kapurthala.
All the four belong to Jammu. A-grade exceptionally fine quality heroin worth Rs 10 cr in the international black market was recovered from them, according to sources in Punjab police. Sources identified the accused as Irshad Iqbal, alleged to be a former MLC's son, of Poonch, traffic police cop Zafar Iqbal, son of Hakim Din, of Bhatindi, PHE employee Ke... | |
| | | | Summer agitation was not a mass uprising: Sahai | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 17: The Inspector General of Police Kashmir Range, SM Sahai believes last year's summer unrest in the Valley was not a peoples' movement. "Criminals and timber smugglers played a big role in it", he told a local news agency.
When asked why the government did not allow peaceful protests in Kashmir, the `top cop' of the country believes rioting and stone pelting cannot be termed peaceful.
Sahai also sees of role of militants in the agitation. "Money was also used to lure youth to pelt stones, he said.
The police forces, the IGP said has to remain vigilant. "We do not know who is spreading the rumour of Khoon ka badla June main laingay" (We shall take rev... | |
| | | | Interlocutors arrive in Winter Capital on fourth visit | | Delimitation issue echoes in talks with politicians, academicians | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 17: From academicians to leaders of the two main opposition parties, the issue of Delimitation of the Assembly constituencies was the issue which echoed everywhere and with everyone whom the Interlocutors appointed by Centre met today during the day long engagements. While J&K National Panthers Party lay thrust on its slogan of reorganization of the state as a means of remedy for removal of disparity meted to regions, BJP stuck to its outcry on matters related to discrimination with Jammu and Ladakh. The members of the Faculty of Jammu University too stressed on the need to strengthen the bonds of integration of state with Indian Union while opposing tooth ... | |
| | | | ET stands vindicated -- II | | In a hopeless situation judiciary came to the rescue of CRPF | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 17: The Early Times stood vindicated on January 14, 2011, when the CRPF's counsel Bhupinder Singh Slathia and his associates knocked at the doors of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court and demanded not just the removal of Justice (Retd) Bashir-ud-Din but the disbanding of the Commission of Inquiry itself, saying that the "petitioners apprehend that at least the Chairman of the Commission would not discharge his duties in a fair and impartial manner" and that the "apprehensions of the petitioners are that on July 30, 2010 Hon'ble Justice (Retd) Bashir-ud-Din made a statement that has been published in various newspapers, including English daily Rising Kashmir." (The... | |
| | | | Jammu leaders responsible for the neglect of Doda, Poonch & Rajouri | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 17: Moves appear afoot to weaken the movement in Jammu province for its political empowerment and help the Kashmiri leadership perpetuate its domination over the region and achieve what it wants to achieve. And, what it wants to achieve is not a secret. It wants to achieve a goal that drives the state away from India. Those who differentiate between freedom and autonomy/self-rule and say implications of freedom are different from those of autonomy and self-rule are blissfully ignorant. Or, they do it just to hoodwink and mislead the gullible elements in New Delhi.
There is no fundamental difference between freedom, autonomy and self-rule. The difference... | |
| | | | SC questions JK Govt on plight of Kashmiri Pandits | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Jan 17: Asking the J&K Government not to just harp on "dream proposals", the Supreme Court today wanted it to explain whether even one out of the thousands of Kashmiri pandits who fled the Valley following the outbreak of militancy have been provided with house or employment.
The court's remarks came on a petition filed by the All India Kashmiri Samaj which alleged that neither the State nor the Centre was addressing the grievances of the Kashmiri pandits who have been suffering for over two decades.
A three Judge Bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar asked the State to come out with the actual data on the steps tak... | |
| | | | Highway made operational for traffic with "tonnes of salt" | | | | JAMMU: Tonnes of salt has been spread on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to make it motorable after heavy snowfall in the region left many stretches slippery.
"We have a difficult time as freezing of the road makes it highly slippery, where controlling a vehicle becomes difficult. So, we spread several tonnes of salt to keep highway motorable," Senior Superintendent of Police, National Highway, Kifayat Hyder told .
The frozen ice condition on the road are done away by spreading salt, which is the oldest method of not only clearing the highway or roads from snow but to make them motorable.
The ice can still be seen on the road stretches in Patnitop, Kud and Banihal area of the h... | |
| | | | Man roasted alive in Poonch fire | | | | JAMMU: An inebriated man was roasted alive in a fire that broke out in his house at Guru Niwas Mohalla in the heart of Poonch town in the wee hours of this morning.
Official sources said a police patrol saw flames emanating from the window of the house of Sanjeev Kumar (52), son of Ram Murti Kapoor, at Guru Niwas Mohalla at about 4.30 am. The flames also spread to the adjoining house of Ghulam Rasool Qazi.
Finding themselves helpless to control the fire, the cops called up the fire services department in the town.
Sources said three fire tenders, including one of army, were pressed into service. It took the firemen nearly two hours to extinguish the fire. The search of Sanjeev'... | |
| | | | Russian skier injured in Kashmir | | | | SRINAGAR: A Russian national was injured while skiing on Gulmarg slopes, about 55 km from here in north Kashmir, official sources said here today. They said 38-year-old Epishen was skiing down at Affarwath, highest ski point in the world connected with Cable Car, in world famous ski resort of Gulmarg when he suddenly lost balance and fell down today.
However, he was immediately rescued and shifted to sub district hospital at Tangmarg.
The entire region recently experienced two to six feet of fresh snowfall, attracting a large number of skiers and adventure lovers from across the globe.... | |
| | | | Anti-national group on 'Facebook', student held | | | | SRINAGAR: A 12th class student was picked up for questioning by police here for allegedly creating anti-national group on social networking site 'Facebook'.
According to sources, Irfan Ahmad Bhat was taken into custody by Special Investigation Team (SIT) of police from Ganderpora locality of downtown Srinagar for espousing the separatist cause on a social networking site.
A resident of Nigeen locality, the youth was being questioned by the police's cyber cell for his alleged role in establishing an 'anti-national' group on Facebook.
"Bhat has not been arrested. He is being interrogated for his role in establishing a group on Facebook by the name of 'Kalekharab'," a senior police officer ... | |
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