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| Court declines to order CBI probe in Yousuf death episode | | Gupkar Road heaves sigh of relief but petitioner to file appeal in HC | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Notwithstanding Supreme Court notices to the State and the Central governments on Monday, an anti-corruption court today dismissed a petition seeking orders of CBI probe into the death of the ruling National Conference (NC) activist Haji Mohammad Yousuf and the accusations of political corruption leveled against the NC President and union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah. Yousuf had died in controversial circumstances hours after being interrogated at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residential office on September 29th.
Special judge at designated anti-corruption court, Mr Mohammad Yousuf Akhoon, dismissed the petition of Syed Mohammad Talib, son of the deceased NC activist, Haji Yousuf of Loktipora, Bijbehara, with the observation that a subordinate court had not competence and jurisdiction to order an inquiry to CBI. Petitioner's counsel, Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad, had offered his arguments on October 28th and 29th.
While Talib's petition was under hearing in Srinagar, National panthers Party patron and senior advocate, Prof Bhim Singh approached Suprem... | |
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| GoM on media discusses J&K situation | | | | Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Nov 1: While the Jammu & Kashmir unit of the Congress is crying foul over lack of coordination between the alliance partners, the Group of Ministers (GoM) on media, informally met on Monday to discuss the current situation of the state. In this stock-taking exercise, sources in the
GoM media said that the some members too felt that there can be better coordination between the two parties in the state.The GoM, however, refrained from holding a formal press conference on the issue.
A member of the GoM said on Tuesday, "If we say that we are satisfied the way the government is running, it would be an incorrect statement."
Sources in the GoM also said that in... | |
| | | | Rs 21,000 for slapping Mustafa.......! | | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Nov 1: After eminent Supreme Court lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan, the National Conference General Secretary Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal's is likely to face the wrath of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), for his utterances against army.
The BSKS has announced a cash reward of Rs 21,000 for anybody, who slaps the NC leader. The Sena is reportedly angry for Kamaal's anti army tirade launched recently under which the latter accused some elements in forces who were against revocation of AFSPA were responsible for engineering the grenade attacks in Kashmir last week.
Mustafa Kamaal, the younger brother of Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abd... | |
| | | | Kamaal ‘molests’ history at Ganderbal | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Lying is an art, some good people say. But telling lies is forbidden. However, some people have mastered the art of telling lies. When they display their art, not only the historians but history itself starts beating its chest. This is exactly what the newly appointed spokesperson of National Conference; Dr Mustafa Kamaal broke all records Tuesday while addressing a gathering at Omar Abdullah's constituency.
Kamaal said, "To strangle the voice of Sheikh (Mohammad Abdullah) Sahib, New Delhi used overt and covert methods. But they failed as Sheikh Sahib refused to bow before them. He was offered chair of President of India to make the temporary accessi... | |
| | | | ‘New Delhi hurling grenades’ | | | | National Conference Chief Spokesman Dr Mustafa Kamaal Tuesday accused New Delhi of hurling grenades in Kashmir to sabotage revocation of AFSPA. He was addressing a gathering at Ganderbal. He leveled similar allegations on Soz and Taj.
Welcoming Chidambaram's statement on AFSPA, he said, "JK's accession to New Delhi was temporary."... | |
| | | | CAPD official's transport company, his brother's residence searched | | Misappropriation of govt ration worth Rs 8.6 lakh detected | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Nov 1: The State Vigilance Organization (SVO) today conducted simultaneous raids at the residence of an official of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department, his brother's residence besides his transport company in Vijaypur and Bari Brahmna areas respectively. Official sources said that three separate Vigilance teams launched search operations at Tehsil Supply Officer (TSO) Jagdish Singh Jamwal's residence at Vijaypur, Samba, his brother Rai Singh Jamwal's residence in village Mean Sarkar and his transport company namely M/S New Jamwal Transport company in Bari Brahmana today. The search operations were conducted on the directions of court after a Firs... | |
| | | | Gangyal PS gheraoed after minor succumbs to injuries | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 1: Agitated over the failure of police to apprehend the motorcyclist, who was evading arrest after hitting and killing a minor in Gangyal area a few days back, people today demonstrated outside Gangyal police station and gheraoed it Nikhil (4), son of Joginder Lal, was wounded critically after he was hit by motorcyclist Sahil Choudhary on October 24 last.
He was admitted to the GMC hospital here and later referred to a hospital in Delhi. SP (south) Rajeshwar Singh said Sahil was arrested and booked under section 279 of RPC. He was, however, bailed out by the court.
When Nikhil later died while undergoing treatment in Delhi, police changed the section to 304-... | |
| | | | Pampore Police cracks sensational murder case | | Siblings behind bars over cold blooded killing of youth | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Pampore Police have recovered the dead body of a mercilessly slain youth and also cracked the blind murder case within four days of occurrence. The criminals had kidnapped the youth while stealing away his valuables---including an iPad and Blackberry mobile phone set---and making an unsuccessful attempt to extort ransom of Rs one Crore from his father.
SP Awantipora, Mohammad Irshad, and SP East Srinagar, Shiekh Zulfikar, revealed at a news conference today that a youngster, namely Kaleem Qadiri of Gausiya Colony, Pampore, had disappeared in mysterious circumstances on October 28th. He was a 2nd year graduation student at Amar Singh College, Srinagar.... | |
| | | | For power Kamal turns soft towards Congress | | Politics Of Opportunisim | | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 1: Convinced that his statements on the JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz have made things very difficult for the isolated chief minister Omar Abdullah, his nephew, NC additional general secretary and chief spokesperson Sheikh Mustafa Kamal has sought to befriend the alienated Congress party. Expressing his concern over what he called group-ism within the Congress, he yesterday at Kulgam cautioned Congress workers to "show restraint while issuing statements against each other". Obviously, he was referring to the revolt in the Congress against PHE minister Taj Mhi-ud-Din, who on Friday and Saturday had made statements on the AFSPA and rotational chief minister which ran c... | |
| | | | JKPCC likely to ask high command to replace Omar? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 1: Reports from Srinagar and Jammu leave none in any doubt that the Congress has decided to intensify its activities in the coming days calculated to make the Congress high command see reason, appreciate aspirations of local Congress workers and go in for rotational chief minister. Yesterday, Congress leaders, including JKPCC office-bearers, those controlling the District Congress Committees and others gathered at the party headquarters in Jammu and Srinagar to pay homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. They used this opportunity to not only denounce PHE Minister Taj Mhi-ud-Din for what were described as his anti-party activities as well as Chief Minis... | |
| | | | Chidambaram's statement no cause for NC to cheer | | Changing Stance on AFSPA | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 1: The NC leadership appears visibly happy over what Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said yesterday in New Delhi while presenting a monthly report of his ministry. Chidambaram said there was "nothing unusual or new if chief minister (Omar Abdullah) of the state wants to quicken the process of review of the AFSPA" and added "there was nothing wrong with that". He also said that the "centre expects chief minister Omar Abdullah to come back after cabinet review" and maintained that the "review of application of the AFSPA in the state was part of an eight-point agenda programme decided by the Cabinet Committee of Security on September 25 last year for restoration of normalc... | |
| | | | Re-verification of LPG connections | | People face harassment | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Nov 1: People in remote Kishtwar district are being harassed on the name of re-verification of LPG connections. According to the people, the owners of Jagdamba Gas Agency in Kishtwar and its employees called the customers of LPG gas connection holders for re-verification of their gas connection sighting the reason of instructions issued by the Union Petroleum ministry in the year 2009 in which the directions have been issued to all LPG franchises that they will not issue two gas connection on one ration card.
The order in no mean stated that all those connections that were issued before the said directives are need to be re-verified, beside this there is also no... | |
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