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‘Shopian women neither raped nor murdered’ CBI’s clean chit to 4 cops, chargesheet against 6 docs, 4 lawyers 12/15/2009 12:35:12 AM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Dec 14: Ending a half-year-long drama in Kashmir valley, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today told Jammu & Kashmir High Court that the married Neelofar Jan and her unmarried sister-in-law, Aasiya Jan, of Shopian, had neither been raped nor murdered. While claiming that the two young women had died due to asphyxia after drowning in Rambiara on May 29 this year, CBI has given clean chit to all the four Police officials who had been booked earlier by a Special Investigating Team (SIT)( of J&K Police, and also filed charges of criminal conspiracy and fabrication of evidence against 13 persons who include a Public Prosecutor (PP) of Omar Abdullah’s government, his predecessor appointed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s PDP-led coalition government, President of Bar Association Shopian, one Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and five other doctors. CBI team, headed by DIG Satish Golchha, appeared before a Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Mr Justice Yaqoob Mir, on the fixed date of hearing of the PIL today and revealed that the agency ...   READ MORE

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Austerity measures are only skin deep 12/15/2009 12:33:36 AM SANT KUMAR SHARMA Jammu, Dec 14: The austerity measures the state government has initiated are a cosmetic exercise aimed at trying to impress the masses. These measures do not mean that the ministers and the bureaucrats have any problem or dearth of funds or manpower at their disposal. Manpower on the payroll of the government is a vital resource that is being misused rampantly. The cost to the exchequer of this important and costly resource is not reflected anywhere in the austerity measures. Similarly, the cost of vehicles and fuel, misused by those in power and without, also runs into hundreds of crores of rupees in Jammu & Kashmir. However, the government has failed to r...   READ MORE   Nago, bros’ remand extended by 10 days 12/15/2009 12:21:51 AM Early Times report Jammu, Dec 14- Special Mobile Magistrate Electricity Jammu RN Wattal today extended 10 days judicial remand of influential contractor Choudhary Naggar Singh and his brothers allegedly involved in FIR No 247 of 2009 P/S Gandhi Nagar Jammu in the much publicized murder case of Amandeep Singh. The Choudhary brothers were produced before the Court by Abdul Rouf Deputy Superintendent of police and Member SIT, and filed an application for judicial remand of 15 days on the ground that suspects Jatinder Singh, Ashok Kumar, who were party in the commission offence in conspiracy with the Choudhary brothers, are yet to be arrested. The Duty Magistrate, after perusing the CD f...   READ MORE   Peace push: Panel to see release of houses from security forces 12/15/2009 12:21:28 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 14: As a part of New Delhi’s confidence building measures in preparing grounds for sustainable peace process, the state government today ordered constitution of three panels and a high level committee to speed up the vacation of government and private buildings occupied by the security forces. Under the terms of reference of the committees, issued by the state Home Department, will prepare an authentic database on all the government and private buildings partially or wholly occupied by the Army, CPMFs and State Police within a period of one month, these will prioritized the vacation of government and private buildings under the occupation of security forc...   READ MORE   Take public mood along in foreign policy making: CM 12/15/2009 12:20:17 AM Munish Gupta Jammu, Dec 14: Having been a junior Minister of External Affairs at a very young age and batting for Vajpayee’s (his then Prime Minister) Kashmir policy in the Western and the Muslim world, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today that India needs to carve out a pro-active foreign policy instead of being on the defensive, as India is largely seen, particularly in its handling of diplomacy with China. Omer observed that in today’s times the prevailing public mood has larger bearing on foreign policy formulations than the mandarins in South Block (that houses the external affairs ministry) thinks of. The recent diplomatic ups and downs with China were perhaps at the back of...   READ MORE   Two HM ultras dead in Doda 12/15/2009 12:19:39 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 14: : In a successful operation, coordinated by state police and jawans of 26 Rashtriya Rifles, two top ultras of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in Gandoh tehsil of remote Doda district on Monday. According to police spokesman , “encounter took place between Doda Police, 26-RR and militants at Amrai Nallah near Champal Doda, falling under the jurisdiction of police station Gandoh in which two HM ultras identified as Yasir Hussain Wani alias Mubasser son of Inayatullah resident of Kupwari, Tandia Gandoh and Mushtaq Ahmad alias Talha son of Ghulam Qadir resident of Kelhir Bounjewa Kishtwar were killed. SP Headquarters,Doda Mohd Arif Rishu said that t...   READ MORE   Real chill yet to come, mercury above normal 12/15/2009 12:19:05 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Dec 14: Temperatures hovered above normal at many places in the Jammu and Kashmir even as upper reaches of the state reel below strong cold. People in Jammu, Srinagar, Udhampur and Poonch had some hiatus as of the winter chill with minimum temperatures settling one to five degrees over normal at majority of places, the officials of metrology department said. The minimum temperature in Jammu was recorded 9 degree Celsius, which is five notches over usual with the maximum of 23 degree Celsius, while the low in Srinagar was one, two degrees over usual and a maximum of 12 degree Celsius. Leh was coldest place in the state registering a low of minus 13...   READ MORE   J&K MPs rake up prepaid cell phone issue in Parliament 12/15/2009 12:18:39 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, Dec 14 : A strong demand was today made in the Lok Sabha for restoration of pre-paid mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir as the ban order affected 92 per cent users, including security forces. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Mirza Mehboob Beg (NC) said Jammu and Kashmir was the only state where the ban had been imposed. "92 per cent of mobile users use pre-paid connections. Due to this decision, over 20,000 youth have been rendered jobless in the State.... Majority of security forces were using the pre-paid connections. They have lost contact with their dear ones," Beg said. The NC member said this had sent a "very wrong signal" and it was o...   READ MORE

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