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| Nazki among 85 post-retirement backdoor entrants in Omar Govt | | Chief Secretary Kapur, GR Sofi, Ahmedullah lobbying for top positions in CIC | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 16: Jammu & Kashmir Chief Secretary, Sham Singh Kapur, did not succeed in getting a post-retirement rehabilitation at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). Reaching superannuation on January 31st, this 1974-batch IAS officer from Himachal Pradesh, who has already completed over 36 years of his service in J&K, is now trying best to get a top level post-retirement extension of five years to his service. He is, however, paying a price to achieve the goal.
Kapur is leaving no stone unturned to garner support from different political parties and the Centre to grab the plum position of Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). A three-member committee, comprising Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti and Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand is scheduled to select J&K's first CIC and two Information Commissioners in a meeting here on January 27th.
According to well connected sources, former Income Tax commissioner, Ghulam Rasool Sofi, is among two retired officials who are currently lobbying for the two positions of Information ... | |
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| Cause of Worry: Dealing with crime, some cops shifted to other side to make quick money | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Jan 18:The arrest of J&K police cop Zafar Iqbal at Kapurthala in Punjab yesterday has brought into focus i) the fact that state is fast emerging as a transit point for narco-smugglers and ii) the feeling that while dealing with crime, some cops take a chance to cross the line to the other side and join hands with law-breakers to make quick money.
This is a cause of worry for all. Even more worrisome is that the vast drug smuggling network could be overlapping with a wider gang active in smuggling weapons and hawala money into the country. Zafar, Irshad, Kewal Singh and Zorawar Singh were Monday captured by Punjab police at Kapurthala for possessing superfine... | |
| | | | Srinagar Sex Scandal | | Another witness turns hostile | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 18: The infamous Srinagar sex scandal case took another turn today when one of the key female witnesses turned hostile in the lower court in Chandigarh where hearing of the case is going on.
Sources said that the female witness denied of having ever met or known, the then Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and presently, Principal Secretary (Planning) Iqbal Khanday. They added that she in her statement accused India's premier investigating agency, CBI, of forcing her to give a statement against Khanday.
Sources further affirmed that the female has given clean chit to Khanday and leveled serious allegations on CBI. They said that she... | |
| | | | Kashmiris not averse to fresh delimitation | | What have Chief Ministers from Valley done for them? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 18: Contrary to popular belief in Jammu, the commoner in the Kashmir Valley is not averse to the idea of a fresh delimitation commission that would provide additional Assembly seats to the Jammu region. Citing the history of what he called state oppression, Ghulam Muhammad Khan, the son of a former activist of the Plebiscite Front who earns a living at his Maharaj Gunj shop said: "What have Chief Ministers of Kashmiri origin done for the hapless Kashmiri? When Sher-e-Kashmir assumed power in 1975, it took him just three years to frame the dreaded Public Safety Act (PSA). This legislation has been recklessly and indiscriminately used to crush dissent. Even boys... | |
| | | | Organizational activities missing, lull in both regions | | NC losing mass contact, grip on ground….? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 18: A sizable number of the leaders in J&K Congress delegation who met party stalwarts in New Delhi recently apart from other issues alleged there was domination by the ruling partner NC not only in matters of governance but also in terms of functioning of two parties at the political level. The bottom line of the allegation was NC cadres and workers do not let Congress workers carry on with their activities, instead they promote their own political interests everywhere. As a ruling party, NC leaders and office bearers have been seen on the forefront, everywhere , but it has served no purpose for the party as a whole. A reality check however, shows NC is act... | |
| | | | ET stands vindicated -- III | | In a hopeless situation judiciary came to the rescue of CRPF | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 18: Another fundamental reason that compelled the petitioners to seek the intervention of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court was the virtual refusal of the Commission of Inquiry to supply the certified copies/photo copies of the relevant papers, including documents/depositions/affidavits etc. on the basis of which the Commission of Inquiry reached a "prima facie conclusion" that the CRPF was involved in the incidents of firing and issued notice to the CRPF on December 21, 2010. Their argument was that it was impossible for them to rebut the charges unless they examined the said records. The refusal on the part of the Commission of Inquiry to supply to th... | |
| | | | Accident outside Shakuntla Theater | | College bus overturns; 21 injured, 1 critical | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 18: At least 21 college students were injured, five of them seriously, when their bus overturned near Shakuntla theatre in the heart of Jammu city today. Police sources said that a bus carrying students of Mahant Bachitter Singh Engineering College overturned when the driver came to know about the break failure and hit the bus against wall of a Shakuntla cinema theatre on the ever-busy BC road area of Jammu city. Bus upturned resulting in injuries to 21 students. Police and locals immediately rushed to the spot and shifted injured including the driver to the hospital. Police officials confirmed that break failure was the reason behind the accident. They added that sin... | |
| | | | Jammu leaders responsible for the neglect of Doda, Poonch & Rajouri | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 18: The opponents of the votaries of the state's trifurcation say that "this idea is still confined to Jammu and some other districts alone" and that "it has no takers in Muslim majority areas and districts of Jammu division." The critics also say that the "demand is gaining momentum in a particular section on communal lines" and that the "leaders demanding separate statehood for Jammu are of the view that the valley based Kashmiri leaders have always discriminated Jammu division in all developmental fronts." They do not stop here. They go on to assert that the separate statehood demand which (has) emerged from Jammu district has sent alarming bells ri... | |
| | | | Cop held for selling police weapons to HM commander | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 18: A police headconstable, who was accused of selling police weapons and ammunition to HM divisional commander Ghulam Nabi alias Javed Qureshi, was today arrested by police from his hideout here.
Qureshi, apprehended by police in Dehradun on December 10 last year, had told his interrogators that headconstable Davinder Kumar alias DK, son of Swami Raj of Larote, Bhaderwah, supplied him police AKs, pistols and ammunition, police sources said.
Evading arrest since Qureshi's apprehension, DK, who had been dismissed from service, was today taken into custody by police from his hideout, the sources added.
He was wanted in a total of nine criminal case... | |
| | | | Dowry case against Jullandhar businessman | | | | JAMMU: The women police cell has registered a dowry case against a Jullandhar businessman.
The case was registered today on the complaint of Lucky Mehra in which she alleged that her husband Vishal Mehra and parents-in-law had been torturing her and demanding more dowry.
Vishal, who hails from Gopal Nagar, Jullandhar, is a businessman. Police had registered a case against him and he was likely to be brought her for questioning in a day, or two, police sources said.... | |
| | | | Burglars held with stolen property | | | | JAMMU: Foiling their attempt to escape to Rajasthan, the Nowabad police today arrested two thieves and recovered from them cash and gold jewellery they had stolen from Sunderbani, Rajouri.
A police team led by Nowabad police station SHO, Inspector Ajay Bhat arrested the accused from Vinayak Dharamshalla at Jewel where they were putting up.
Police sources said a cash of Rs 60,000, six tolas gold jewellery and some silver ornaments worth lakhs were recovered from their possession. During interrogation, they told police that they reached Jammu today and had to board a train for Rajasthan early Wednesday morning. Their interrogation was on.... | |
| | | | BJP summons Khajuria | | | | Jammu: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has summoned MLA Jammu East and former state president Ashok Khajuria to New Delhi to review preparation for the upcoming Sankalp Yatra.
Party sources said that Khajuria will leave from Jammu today. As per party sources, BJP Chief Nitin Gadkari has sent invitations across the country to almost all the top ranking BJP leaders and activists to review preparations for successful completion of Sankalap yatra through out the country. They added that Khajuria has called in to hold threadbare discussions on the hoisting of national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on January 26.... | |
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