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| Is Rather in the eye of a storm within his Govt? | | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 27: Despite retaining massive support in his home constituency of Chrar-e-Sharief in the 7th successive Assembly election in 2008, senior National Conference (NC) leader and Minister of Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather, has found himself in the worst of his times in the year 2009. His stars have favoured him only to the extent that he has got the charity of a berth in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s Cabinet---something that eluded his junior colleague and NC crowd-puller Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan or his parallel in Congress party, Choudhary Mohammad Aslam.
Maintaining his unflinching faith and loyalty for godfather Sheikh Abdullah’s party and progeny religiously in the last nearly 40 years, Rather used to be counted among three of the most influential Ministers in Dr Farooq Abdullah’s governments from 1982 to 2002. With stalwarts like Maulana Attaullah Suharwardy, Bashir Ahmed Kitchloo and P L Handoo passing away and men like Mohammad Shafi Uri either getting a dressing down at the hustings or shifting to the Parliament, Rather had for all pra... | |
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| Few takers of Govt move to shift KP staff to Valley | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, NOV 27: If reports doing rounds in the civil secretariat here are any guide, Kashmiri Pandit employees have to be prepared for posting in the Valley. Both the Centre and the State Governments are said to have decided to transfer all Kashmiri Pandit employees to the Valley as part of the plan for facilitating return of the migrants to Kashmir.
Official sources today said that the decision ould be implemented strictly from March 210 onwards. In fact, a beginning has already been made and in the recent reshuffle of senior and junior Government officials a large number of employees, especially engineers have been posted in different parts of the Valley.
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| | | | Rajneesh Sharma custody death case | | SC notice to Centre, J&K Govt and CBI | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Nov 27: A two-judge bench of Supreme Court issued notice on Friday to the Central and the J&K governments and also to the CBI on a petition seeking a CBI probe into death in police custody of Rajneesh Sharma in Srinagar. The apex court’s notices are to be replied in four weeks time by the respondents.
Their lordships also observed that the court would hear the petition seeking among other things investigations by the CBI two weeks after the Supreme Court reopens on January 3 after the winter break.
The petition sought probe by the premier investigating agency, saAying that only such a course could ensure fair investigation free from the pulls and pressures... | |
| | | | DM grants 6 days remand to Jagar, Rakesh and one day remand to Nagaar Singh | | | |
Jammu, November-27 (JNF):- Forest Magistrate Jammu Mr. Yahaya Firdous who is also Duty Magistrate has granted six days more police remand of Choudhary Jagar Singh and Choudhary Rakesh Singh who are already in the police since November 21, 2009. regarding the remand of Choudhary Nagar Singh alias Nago, Duty Magistrate granted only one days further police remand with the direction to SIT to produce the accused before the hospital for medical examination as his medical report produced by the SIT is not clear, so Duty Magistrate directed SIT to do fresh medical check-up of Nagar Singh also Nago.
The three Choudhary brothers are allegedly involved in fudging of evidence in the mu... | |
| | | | Amandeep murder case | | Accused Jaggar Singh files application for medical check-up | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 27-In an application filed for immediate medical check up and treatment of Jaggar Singh one of the accused allegedly involved in fudging evidence in the much publicized murder case of Amandeep Singh, the Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu YP Bourney today directed Incharge Special Investigation Team for taking necessary action and file report.
Jaggar Singh in his application filed through Advocate Kishore Kumar has submitted that the accusations against the applicant are that he has committed offence punishable u/s 201, 120-B and 409 of Ranbir Panel Code. It was further submitted that the accused along with other two accused surrendered on November 17, 2009 ... | |
| | | | Choudhary brothers seek directions for signing cheques during police custody | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 27- O an application filed by Choudhary brothers seeking direction to the Special Investigation Team to allow them to sign and issue cheques during police custody, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jammu today directed Incharge SIT to report in the application by November 30, 2009.
This application was filed through Advocate AH Bhat in which it has been submitted that the applicants, alleged accused in Amadeep murder case, are in police custody and lodged in police lock-up of SIT in P/S Gandhi Nagar. The petitioners are businessmen and in some cases are partners in various firms which are duly recognized and registered by the competent authorities. It has been al... | |
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