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22 voters cast double votes in same Budhal panchayat BLO registers their vote at 2 places: Will authorities correct their lists 5/28/2011 12:16:21 AM Amit Sharma EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, May 27: Although it is crime, there are 22 persons of one Panchayat Morha in Budhal block of Rajouri district whose vote has been registered in two wards and if sources are to be believed all of them have cast their votes at both places thus violating all elections norms and rules. Casting vote at two places is said to be a criminal offence. Sources said that Block Level Officer of the area who had been assigned the duty of reviewing the voter list seemed to have ignored these double votes. After filling petition in the Court, defeated Sarpanch of Morha Choudhary Mir Hussain has alleged that the BLO had intentionally not reviewed the list only to benefit a particular candidate and he succeeded in his mission. "I have proof that these people have cast their votes at two places", he said adding that why BLO let these votes at two places even though he was well aware about the same. "There was criminal intension to cast vote at two places and BLO along with others involved in registration of votes at two places must be booked under law", he...   READ MORE

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Police put on high alert after locals sight 2 suspects at Domana 5/28/2011 12:04:49 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 27: The city police were Friday put on high alert after two suspects were sighted by a man at Domana near here.The man suspected them to be militants as they looked different and carried bags on their shoulders. He saw them coming from the track, that linked main Domana road with the border, in the morning. As they boarded a city-bound minibus, he raised an alarm and called up police control room (PCR). The PCR, in turn, alerted all city police stations and nakas.Scores of cops soon fanned out in the general bus stand,Maheshpura, Jewel and other city areas. They were seen carrying out the checking of all minibuses that came from Domana side. Commuters were ...   READ MORE   Ex-minister's trust alloted prime land at Gadigarh, people protest 5/28/2011 12:02:12 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 27: A massive protest was today held by people on the Miran Sahib-R S Pura road stretch at Gadigarh against the allotment of prime land to a trust owned by former health minister and Congress leader Suman Lata Bhagat. The angry people, who shouted slogans against revenue department, blocked the road at Gadigarh and did not allow Suman and her son Vikas to proceed to the land measuring 7.11 kanalas. They alleged that the land had been alloted to Chhajju Ram Charitable Trust in gross violation of rules as it was actually earmarked for the construction of a college, or a hospital on it. The protesters alleged that the allotment was the official way of grabbi...   READ MORE   Killer of twin sisters among 2 militants killed in Sopore 5/27/2011 11:45:14 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 27: Dreaded Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Qari Anas Lashkari, who was allegedly involved in killing of two young women in Muslim Pir area of Sopore earlier this year, got killed today alongwith another militant of the organisation in an encounter at Nowpora in Sopore outskirts. Two more militants have died in a separate encounter with security forces in Kellar area of Shopian in South Kashmir. SP Sopore Altaf Khan told Early Times that on a specific information available with Sopore Police in the forenoon today, troops of RR 22 Bn and Sopore Police launched a cordon-and-search operation at Tantray Mohalla of Nowpora. As troops and Police ...   READ MORE   Alert on IB after BSF sights suspects near Samba, fires 5/27/2011 11:42:57 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 27: An alert was Thursday night sounded all along the International Border (IB) after a BSF patrol picked up the movement of some suspected persons between pillar No 14 and 15 near Chak Majra outpost in Ramgarh sub-sector of Samba. BSF personnel were on routine patrol when they sighted some suspected persons on Pak side of the IB at about 11.15 pm yesterday, 72 Bn commandant Hemant Kumar said. He said though the jawans fired in their direction, there was no retaliation. A total of 40 to 50 bullets were fired, Hemant informed.He said search of the area was carried out this morning, but nothing was recovered.An alert had been sounded by BSF all along the IB t...   READ MORE   Army mounts pressure on militants in Rajouri, Poonch 5/27/2011 11:41:34 PM Early Times Report RAJOURI, May 27: Increased anti-insurgency operations in Rajouri and Poonch area by army has create bafflement among the militants operating in the area as forces have eliminated all commanders. Recently two top commanders of LeT have been killed in Surankote while the remaining outfit have also come under the pressure of army. Sources said that army has intensified anti-insurgency operations especially Romeo Force has become active to eliminate all remaining militants from Rajouri Poonch districts. The force has get inputs that militants have turned confusive in the area after the Romeo Force intensified operations. Sources said that militants have also been suggested ...   READ MORE   Does judicial intervention make any difference in JK? 5/27/2011 10:59:12 PM Early Times Report Jammu, May 27: A `half widow’ has not sought judicial intervention to seek the whereabouts of her disappeared husband because she has no money to pay the lawyer. When told lawyers in Srinagar file such petitions free of cost, Raja turned pale. “How can I face my husband when he returns?”. The questions haunts here. “I have tried my best to trace out his whereabouts. But now it has dawned on me that I have not exhausted all the remedies”, she regretted. The thought perhaps caused a stir deep inside her heart. But does legal recourse make any difference here? These school rhymes would make them uneasy and force them into isolation. In the evening they would anxiously...   READ MORE   Omar questions separatists over summer strikes Geelani, Malik, Mirwaiz placed under house arrest 5/27/2011 10:57:10 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, May 27 (KNS): The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, Friday criticized Hurriyat leaders for calling strikes during summer months and questioned their motive in getting more restive during peak of tourism season. Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter: “What is it about out Hurriyat friends (and their) need to create trouble on Fridays only in summer. Where were they all through winter????” As part of Hurriyat (G) campaign against “illegal detention and ill-treatment of political prisoners across jails in Jammu and Kashmir”, the amalgam has been calling for frequent protest and strikes in the last month or so. Pointing towards the sudden flurry of activity by ...   READ MORE   Kashmiris optimistic of a peaceful summer this year 5/27/2011 10:53:27 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, May 27: With traders and other business community members outrightly opposing the bandh calls and frequent strikes in Valley, the people are optimistic that this Summer after many years will pass peacefully. The outright rejection of strike calls by the business community members is a positive sign and people are optimistic that the situation will change for a better in the trouble-torn Valley, is the general feeling among the masses in Kashmir who are fed up with 21 year long turmoil and gun culture. The common masses who are the worst sufferers of the terrorism also want that separatists should hold the parlays with Government for restoration of total peac...   READ MORE   Students may disturb peace in Jammu Central University 5/27/2011 10:52:27 PM NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 27: Things appear assuming alarming proportions in the otherwise peaceful Jammu province. What has been slowly but surely aggravating the Jammu’s political scene is the inordinate delay in the establishment of the sanctioned Central University in Jammu. That the mood of the Jammu youth is changing and that they may disturb peace in Jammu became evident Thursday, when the Jammu University Research Scholars Association (JURSA), the premier organization of Research scholars, administered a threat that student community would not take things lying down and that it would take recourse to all conceivable means to force the authorities to start the Central Uni...   READ MORE   Three-way split can satisfy all in J&K Farooq’s Flawed Approach 5/27/2011 10:51:21 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 27: National Conference president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has not done justice to the position he holds in the Union Government. He is an Indian and every Indian would expect everyone in the government to defend the Indian cause and advocate a line that preserves the Indian sovereignty and maintains the territorial integrity of India. None would like any minister in the Union Government or in any of the state government to advocate a line as Farooq Abdullah advocated on May 26 at Nainital for the simple reason that such a line has the potential of promoting the cause of rogue Pakistan in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. Far...   READ MORE

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