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| SSPs arrested, imprisoned but no conviction in 13 years | | Mumbai drug smuggling - - Shopian 'rape-cum-murder' - - Ganderbal killings - - Ganderbal killings - - Ganderbal killings - - Anara Gupta interview - - Pathribal killings | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jan 22: Even as nearly two dozen gazetted officers of Jammu & Kashmir, both regular recruits (IPS) and state police service (KPS), have been removed from service or posting on complaints, placed under suspension, attached, arrested, imprisoned and subjected to prosecution in the last 13 years, not one of them has been convicted as charges have not been established against them in any court of law.
IPS officer of batch 1995, Saji Mohan, was arrested in Maharashtra on January 24, 2009, when Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) Mumbai claimed to have seized 12 kg of heroin from this senior official of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). Saji was on central deputation and posted as Chandigarh Zone Director of NCB when he landed in trouble. Before developing relationship with trans-border drug smugglers in Jammu, Saji had served as Assistant Director of SK Police Training Academy at Udhampur, SP of Ramban and Additional SP of Doda.
NCB later booked him in several others criminal matters. Facing prosecution, he has been in jail for the last three years. All 1995 IPS offic... | |
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| 9th class student claims he caught Pak ultra near IB on Jan 19, BSF denies | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 22: Making a sensational disclosure, a 9th class student said he caught hold of a Pak militant near BSF's SP-1 outpost at Ramgarh in Samba near here on January 19 last and then handed him over to two BSF personnel, a claim that has been denied by BSF.
All top functionaries of police, army and counter-insurgency (CI) agencies have been taking rounds of the boy's residence at Bhambochak since January 19 but none of them confirmed the incident.
Bhambochak is close to SP-1 outpost. Sahil Choudhary (15), son of Darshan Lal, delivers milk at SP-1 outpost daily and then leaves for his school in the village.
He told Early Times over phone that when he was going to... | |
| | | | ‘Govt not bothered about safety of students’ | | Kashmir boy shot at in Ujjain | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 22: The Chief Minister called his counterpart in Madhya Pradesh to enquire about the shooting incident at Ujjain that left a Kashmiri student injured.
The MP Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan assured Omar Abdullah investigation into the incident and appropriate punishment to the guilty. He also assured safety of students from Jammu Kashmir, Omar tweeted.
However, Omar's call could not pacify the angry students who accused successive state governments of failure to ensure their safety in various states.
Shabir Ahmed from Botangoo, Sopore in north Kashmir was critically injured on Saturday after being fired at by two unidentified assailants in Ujjai... | |
| | | | Admn insensitive to suffering masses: Cong leader | | Urges party ministers to make regular visits to Valley | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 21: Continuing his tirade against Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his administration ,senior Congress Party leader and legal luminary Ashok Bhan has accused the government of being insensitive, callous to the crisis and situation arisen out of harsh weather conditions in Kashmir Valley and other parts of the state.
Bhan today said both political leadership and administration has failed in its basic public duties to ensure the regular flow, supply and availability of basic necessities, the essential commodities and regular supply of power & gas to the people of Valley. "This amply demonstrates the in sensitiveness and callousness of both political as wel... | |
| | | | NC not responsible for KPs exodus......? | | Bakaya defends Abdullahs......! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 21: In what can be seen as a reaction coming from an unexpected quarter in defence of NC and high command comprising Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, Vijay Bakaya, MLC who is associated with the party over a couple of years . Bakaya has defended father son duo in response to a statement by senior Congress leader Ashok Bhan in which he alleged that NC and Abdullahs were responsible for exodus of KPs from Valley for they created a situation of political vacuum which was occupied by Pak sponsored elements in terrorizing the minority community.
Vijay Bakaya while condemning the statement of Bhan has said it was not based on the facts Bhan . Bakaya said w... | |
| | | | CM slides in Gulmarg as Valley suffers | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had a nice time Sunday on Gulmarg slopes as people continued to face shortage of LPG and other essentials across Kashmir.
Every person has a right to entertainment. But a person who heads the administration in a state that is going through an emergency needs to be a bit prudent. He has to identify with the sufferers. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Administered Kashmir preferred to stay in a tent in 2005 after a strong earthquake caused massive devastation there. According to reports, he stayed in the tent for more than month. His presence in the relief camp conveyed a strong message which was acknowledged with grat... | |
| | | | What if IAF hadn't come to rescue of stranded passengers? | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 22: The failure of the State government to address the problems of the people in the Valley during the recent snowfall has exposed the inherent fault in the policies and priorities of the state administration.
Failure to ensure that the oil companies in the Valley maintained enough LPG stocks during the winter cannot be washed away by saying an enquiry will be held into the dealings of these oil companies. What was the state CAPD department doing all this time? Isn't it the duty of the CAPD authorities to check and verify the stocks of LPG maintained in the Valley?
How can the State government escape the responsibility by simply wishing off its obligatio... | |
| | | | Vakil takes dig at Govt over slow pace of development in Jammu | | 'Financial mess in various departments needs to be looked into' | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SAMBA, Jan 22: Taking a dig at the State Government over the slow pace of development works, the senior Congress leader and former Minister Abdul Ghani Vakil said today that the projects particularly which took off in Jammu region during the regime of Ghulam Nabi Azad have either stalled or delayed.
Addressing a public meeting at Samba today, Gani Vakil said that it was during the tenure of the then Congress Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that a number of development works were started.
He said that beginning from creating eight new districts to constructing Attendants' Sarai for family members of patients undergoing treatment at Government Medical College Hospital, ... | |
| | | | BJP on the brink of ruin | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 22: The state unit of the BJP is "withering away". This is what the insiders say. They say that the state BJP president has "no say" in the party and that he is "running the show with the help of a couple of office-bearers, including one of the party spokesperson who joined the BJP a couple of years ago after quitting the Congress party". There are two more spokespersons in the BJP. One of them has gone "totally dormant because no one in the party is taking him into confidence or asking into represent the party views either through print media or in TV debates on issues concerning Jammu and Kashmir". The third spokesperson does speak on occasions and issue pr... | |
| | | | Bhim does deserve appreciation for his interventions | | In Defence of Gen Singh | | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 22: Chairman of Panthers Party, Bhim Singh, does deserve appreciation for his timely interventions at critical junctures, notwithstanding his inability to achieve his stated objective: reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir and separate assembly and separate chief minister for Jammu province. Bhim Singh has done in the state no other leader could do, not even the so-called ultra-nationalist and pro-Jammu BJP. It would be only reasonable to say that it is because of his interventions that the Kashmiri leadership could not implement its certain controversial and divisive decisions.
Bhim Sigh's first notable intervention was during the time of Sheikh Abdullah. Chief Minister Sh... | |
| | | | Congress, SP doing what League did before 1947 | | Towards Another Partition -- II | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 22: It was on September 16, 1906 that a meeting of important Muslims at Lucknow decided to send a deputation under Aga Khan to Governor-General of India, Lord Minto, to acquaint him with their problems and grievances. The deputation met with Minto on October 1, 1906. Aga Khan presented a memorandum to him. According to the memorandum, the position of the Muslims in the future structure of representative government "should be commensurate not merely with their numerical strength but also with their political importance and the value of the contribution which they made to the defence of the (British) Empire" in India. They also asked that the "Muslim representation to the v... | |
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