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| J&K prefers not to penalize mantris, babus; SAC recommendations pending | | Accountability withers! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Dec 15: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's government has unique distinction of penalizing lower ranking officers while allowing blue-eyed, politically suitable, corrupt but so-called efficient officers to retire mutely.
Repeated pronouncements of government initiating probe into the assets of several KAS, IAS, IPS officers alongwith two particular National Conference (NC) ministers of ruling coalition seem to be mere witch hunting and can be brutally described as 'remote control to silent dissent and a way to ensure officers remain loyal to the regime." Officers and ministers, against whom cases are pending in various courts, have been rewarded with choice postings and ministries instead of being penalized.
Ask for the reasons and the government would tell you "No case has been proved against these officials. You are not guilty until proven so." This reasoning results in "cases not being proved against the officers and judgments pronounced either in their favour or against them, years after their retirement from the government service." Jammu and Kashmir ... | |
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| SC allows rejoinder to counter affidavit of DGP Khoda | | Mysterious 'death' of NC worker Haji Yousuf | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: Supreme Court (SC) today allowed Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia to file rejoinder to the counter-affidavit filed by Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda.
Division Bench headed by Justice Altmas Kabir comprising of S.S. Nijjar and J. Chelameswar permitted JKNPP Chief and senior advocate Bhim Singh for the petitioner Balwant Singh Mankotia MLA to file rejoinder to the counter -affidavit. Case shall be listed for next hearing after 15 days of vacation.
Petitioner also filed application seeking direction to stay operation of the enquiry commission headed by justice Bedi a Retd Judge of the Supreme Cour... | |
| | | | Road journey costlier than air travel, Omar | | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
JAMMU, Dec 15: Justifying air travel, the Chief Minister today said journey by road was costlier. "As much as I love these road tours the inconvenience caused to other road users & the cost of all the vehicles that accompany is too much." Omar Abdullah twitted.
Omar is presently on three day tours of Chenab region. In his recent tweet he said last evening that he loves to travel by road but the cost of all the vehicles that accompany him is too much. Omar tried to convey that any road journey by him was costlier as compared to air travel.
However, Omar forgot to mention that the officers have to remain around the Chief Minister in the area he intends to visit even if ... | |
| | | | Kashmir cleric demands probe in Delhi's funding to madrasas | | | | Maulana Hami: We never applied for grants. It's a plot to ban genuine madrasas. List includes non-existent schools. Govt officials have swindled Crores
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Dec 15: Promoters of hundreds of madrasas receiving Government of India's funding to operate their schools in Jammu & Kashmir are tightlipped over the disclosure made by the state government. An alliance of Islamist organizations has, however, demanded thorough investigation into the entire episode while leveling allegations that officials of the state Education Department had obtained money without applications from many of the schools even as a number of the beneficiary madrasas were not existing anywhere... | |
| | | | Make SAC free of political maneuvering: Mufti to govt | | 'Politicians, bureaucrats having field day due to defunct bodies' | | | 'BJP can never expose, nor provide alternative to NC'
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 15: Upping its ante against NC led coalition over the issue of corruption, the PDP Patron and Former Chief Minister of the state Mufti Mohammad Syed today accused the government of having made all anti graft bodies defunct as a result of which corrupt politicians and bureaucrats were enjoying a field day. Mufti State Accountability Commission said is suffering from credibility crisis as the present government failed to take any initiative to make it functional. The former Chief Minister called for a separate and independent investigating agency for SAC , the head of which , he asserted must be at par wi... | |
| | | | Bhalla asks Div Com Kashmir to remove encroachments from Jawala Ji shrine | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister, Raman Bhalla has taken strong exception to fresh encroachments taking place at Jawala Ji Shrine Khrew in Pulwama district of Kashmir Valley.
In a communique to Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Bhalla has urged him to take stern action against the defaulters by demolishing all structures which have been raised on the land of this historical shrine.
The Minister also urged the Divisional Commissioner to depute a tehsildar on site who should be entrusted with the responsibility and powers of demolition of structures on the land of this ancient Hindu shrine. He also stressed on making notification of the land.
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| | | | DySP lodges complaint against 6 cops including former SSP Reasi, SP, SHO | | DIG to conduct inquiry on court direction | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Dec 15: Former DySP HQ Reasi Mohd Aslam has lodged complaint against former SSP Reasi Keshav Ram Chourasia, former Additional SP HQ Reasi Anita Sharma, SHO Reasi Jatinder Singh Sambyal, Sub Inspector Vijay Thakur, Selection Grade Constable Subash Chand and Head Constable Charanjeet Singh through Chief Judicial Magistrate Reasi demanding registration of FIR against them under section 323,352,506/341,120B/19 RPC.
In his complaint filed in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Reasi, the former DySP HQ Reasi Mohd Aslam demanding registration of FIR under above said section against former SSP Reasi Keshav Ram Chourasia, former Additional SP HQ Reas Anita Shar... | |
| | | | SSP, SI under scanner for alleged corruption charges | | | |
Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Dec 15: In a strange incident senior police two cops of Jammu and Kashmir police are under scanner of government following corruption charges leveled against them while the police is tight lipped on issue, high placed sources within department said.
High chaired sources in police informed that two cops of Jammu and Kashmir police are under scanner of government following corruption charges leveled against them. "Though, police department is tight lipped over the matter, but sources within police department said further adding, "a deal over a huge amount of Rs 2 lakh was struck between drug smuggler and two cops on the ranks of Senior Superintendent of Police... | |
| | | | Forest fires in J&K result of deliberate arson.....? | | Timber smugglers operate in connivance with officials | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 15: A number of forest fires, that have taken place in J&K during the past few years, are mostly the result of deliberate arson. The alleged smuggler-official nexus, which has evidently taken roots in the state, is mainly held responsible for the green gold loss in the blaze.
In many such cases in the erstwhile Doda district, there were strong indications about the involvement of some politicians, but the probes were left half-way due political pressures.
On December 6 last, timber and pine trees worth crores were gutted in a devastating blaze in compartment No 18 of Duggi forests of Bhaderwah, Doda.
On the night of May 22 last, at least three compartments in M... | |
| | | | Act before Jammu observes strike on Dec 20 | | Breaking deadlock | | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 15: Now that the black-coated community of lawyers has given call for Jammu bandh on December 20, it is time for the NC-Congress coalition government to act before things take an ugly turn in Jammu province. The situation as it prevails today in the state is not normal. It is abnormal by any yardstick. The Kashmir Valley is on the boil. What happened today in Srinagar in the wake of the gruesome killing of a young Kashmiri businessman is an indication that things in the Valley are quite volatile and that the enemies of peace could exploit the situation to their advantage. The state government just can't afford to take things lightly. Contrarily, it has to take steps to keep... | |
| | | | Political instability in Delhi helping NCRustam | | Advantage Omar | | | JAMMU, Dec 15: An overwhelming majority of Congressmen, barring perhaps Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla, Medical Education and Sports Minister RS Chib and Public Health Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din, wants the Congress high command to revive the 2002 power-sharing formula and replace Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with Congress leader on or before January 5, 2012, when the present incumbent would complete three years in office. Even the JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz never overruled the possibility of change of guard. In fact, only last month he told a local daily that all options were open and that the PDP-Congress coalition government had functioned quite well. ... | |
| | | | Don't just condole, bring Tariq's killers to justice | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 15: The murder of 25-year shopkeeper Tariq Ahmad Bhat of Range Hamam in downtown city at the hands of those forcing shutdown on shops and traffic has been widely condemned by everyone except the Kashmiri separatist leaders.
Bhat had told his killers, who threatened him to shut his shop or face the consequences, that it would take him a little time to shut his shop. But, this proved to be asking for too much. Before the unfortunate shopkeeper could move to shut his shop, one of the hooligans struck the fatal blow on Bhat's head. He fell down unconscious at the very spot he was hit by his assailants. The unfortunate incident happened on 3rd of this month. Fo... | |
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