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| Rajendra may emerge as dark horse between 3 Biharis | | J&K Govt unlikely to appoint new DGP on Delhi's choice | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, Apr 24: Even as the Union Home Secretary, RK Singh, has recommended three senior IPS officers from his home State of Bihar and he wants one of them to succeed Kuldeep Khoda as Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government is now expected to assert with its own choice. In the gradually changing circumstances, state's senior most Additional DGP (ADGP), K Rajendra Kumar, is emerging as the dark horse between the three nominees---Arun Choudhary, Ashok Prasad and P M Nair.
Sources linked to top corridors of power revealed to Early Times today that the state government had developed 'serious reservations' to the idea of taking the choice for the top post from Government of India. According to these sources, it was "simply a routine practice" for the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to submit a panel of three senior IPS officers whenever the post of DGP fell vacant in any state in the country.
"For Union Territories, the decision lies with MHA. In case of states, it is the state government that has to take the decision", said a... | |
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| PM's excellence awards for J&K officers | | Resentment brews amongst top Kashmiri Babudom | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: At a time when State Government is patting its back for awards of excellence conferred on five of its officers and projecting it as a recognition of its initiatives by the Centre, resentment is brewing within a strong Kashmir based bureaucratic lobby of the State for not including a single Kashmiri officer in the list that was recommended to the Government of India for the awards.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had recently awarded five officers of the State in recognition of their excellent work in public administration on the occasion of Civil Services Day in New Delhi. The list of officers recommended by the State Government did not include any ... | |
| | | | Victim reveals names of accused | | Minor's abduction | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Apr 24: The Additional Superintendent of Police has assured stern action against the culprits who pushed a minor from Padyarnaa, Kishtwar into flesh trade.
In an exclusive interview with "Early Times" ASP Kishtwar, Kulbeer Singh said that police have recorded the statement of the minor girl under 164 CrPc before Chief Judicial Magistrate. The victim, according to him, narrated her woeful tale.
She said she was first taken to Jammu and allegedly pushed into flesh trade by Santosha Devi and her sister Saroja Devi. He said that police were examining the statement of the victim girl.
The ASP, said that last year in the month of March Kishtwar police received a co... | |
| | | | Police claim to have identified DC involved in Durga Nagar sex scam | | | | Kishtwar, Apr 24: Police today claimed to have identified the deputy commissioner (DC), who was allegedly involved in the Durga Nagar sex scam.
While his name was kept a secret, police sources said the minor girl was repeatedly raped by the DC at his residence at Chhani Himmat, Jammu.
The girl was sent to the DC's residence by the alleged sex racket kingpin Santosha Devi, the sources added.
Sources, however, said that police would act only after the proper identification of the accused by the 15 year old victim.
Sources said that police were trying to get the picture of the accused DC so that the same could be shown to the victim for identification.
Sources said that after the surfac... | |
| | | | Omar ends up criticizing PDP in Rajouri | | | | Early Times Report
rajouri, Apr 24: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today played a typical Kashmiri woman who goes to her roof top over trifles to curse her neighbour. Omar addressed several rallies at Rajouri today. All the rallies were well attended. The people perhaps expected a political message from the Chief Minister. However, he ended up criticizing the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He accused the PDP of taking credit for opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. The road, Omar said, was opened in pursuance of an agreement between India and Pakistan.
"Rest assured about a three-tier powerful Panchayat system functioning and flourishing in the State", he... | |
| | | | Kamaal does not know what he says | | 1975 Accord | | | Rustam
Jammu, Apr 24: It has become customary with NC additional general secretary and uncle of CM Omar Abdullah, Mustafa Kamaal, to make controversial and provocative statements. He has turned so arrogant and uncouth that he is not sparing even the JKPCC chief, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, thus suggesting that the local Congress leadership has no other option but to dance to the NC's tunes and not say anything about the issues concerning governance or Centre-State relations. It is a different story that the Congress leadership is not responding appropriately to call the NC's bluff. It is for the Congress leadership to explain as to why it is not taking on the likes of Kamaal who have been spewin... | |
| | | | How long would Kamaal continue to embarrass NC? | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, April 24: Dr. Mustafa Kamaal has taken on Delhi, Congress and State's accession to the country single-handedly.
Kamaal has challenged J&K Congress president, Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz to prove his support. Soz had recently said the real empowerment of the elected Sarpanches and Panches cannot happen unless the Constitutional amendments 73rd and 74th are extended to the State of Jammu and Kashmir through their adoption by the State legislature.
Kamaal has been re-appointed as the additional general secretary of the ruling NC after he had been divested of the party charge early this year when he criticized the Congress general... | |
| | | | Holier Than The Cow Role: The Dangerous Fifth Column | | Commotion in K Hindus Camp | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: The outright rejection by various sections of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus of the meeting between a Hurriyat and a group of Kashmiri Hindus seems to have irked some participants more than others. While the majority of the Hindu participants seem to have undertaken to be part of the meeting for "exploratory reasons to find out first hand the response of the Hurriyat leaders", as per the admissions by them to their close confidants some of whom spoke to this correspondent, a few of them seem to be part of this exercise as if they are "fulfilling a revolutionary task". Their responses to the condemnation by their own community of their act have made t... | |
| | | | PDP, BJP up the ante, ridicule Congress | | Empowering Panchayats | | | Neha
Jammu, Apr 24: The main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the otherwise leaderless and issueless Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have upped the ante and unleashed a full-scale campaign against the Congress and the National Conference (NC). While the BJP has ridiculed the Congress leadership saying it has no moral right to criticize the NC's stand on the issue of empowerment of elected Panchayats, Panchs and Sarpanchs, as it itself is in the Government, the PDP has said that the Congress and the NC are "engaged in a mock war of words over the issue of devolution of powers to Panchayats".
It is important to note that while the PDP leadership has been criticizing the NC and th... | |
| | | | Allegation of sexual exploitation against DIG jails | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: Serious allegation of sexual exploitation has been levelled by a girl's relative against Mohammad Sultan Lone -- DIG of jails.
The allegation was levelled against the DIG by one Sajjad Iqbal in a written complaint filed by him with the Crime Branch of police, according to police sources.
In the complaint, Iqbal alleged that Lone sexually exploited a girl, who was closely related to him, for months together in the name of providing her a job.
However, when she put pressure on the jail officer to provide her the job he had promised, he turned her out, he alleged.
Iqbal said he had approached the Crime Branch with a complaint against the DIG after the gi... | |
| | | | Jammu to have Convention Centre on pattern of SKICC | | Cabinet meeting tomorrow | | | early times report
Jammu, Apr 24: The cabinet meeting which was scheduled to meet be held tomorrow has now been postponed by a day and is likely to be convened day after tomorrow due to non availability of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and some ministers who are on tour to various places . Apart from the much speculative major reshuffle in both administration and police department that has been in circulation for some days, the only confirmed agenda in the cabinet meeting so far is revival of plan to have a Convention Centre in Jammu on the pattern of SKICC in Srinagar. Sources said that finally the plan which has been executed partially for having an international level Convention C... | |
| | | | Flawed Rehabilitation policy stands exposed | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: The decision of the Centre government to deploy J&K police personnel along Indo-Nepal border to check illegal entry of Kashmiri youth has exposed the much-hyped Rehabilitation policy .
The policy was aimed at facilitating return of youth who had crossed over the border to seek arms training but now intend to come back. It was step forward from the surrender policy but was dependent on the cooperation of Pakistan government.
This fact was deliberately or ignorantly ignored not by just the chief minister but even by the union home minister P Chidambaram
On a visit to Jammu in March 2009, the time when this policy was announced, he not only extended su... | |
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