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| CM security cop's weapon seized from contractor | | Accused release on interim bail | | | Jammu, July 7
Sounds unbelievable! Jammu police has reportedly seized a revolver of a sub inspector posted with Chief Minister's Security wing from a private contractor named in a case of intimidation on gun point.
The accused contractor was arrested with his associate yesterday after a showroom owner complained that the duo along with two other associates intimidated him by a revolver at his shop T R Gupta and Sons located at Railway Road Jammu.
The showroom owner complained that a private contractor along with two others came to his shop and asked to return money that he owened to one Bhatia. "When I said, I owe nothing to him as all accounts have already been cleared between us, the assailants brandished a pistol and threatened to kill me and my family in case I refused to pay the money", the complaint said, adding "one of his associate also pointed a Katta towards me." .
On receipt of the complaint, police arrested two persons and recovered the revolver bearing number PVL 209.
The sources within the police disclosed that the revolver is an official weapon of a Sub I... | |
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| Huge arms dump recovered near Buddha Amarnath | | | | Jammu, July 7
Foiling a plan by militants to target the Buddha Amarnath Yatra in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, security forces today recovered a huge arms and explosive dump near the shrine, official sources said.
On a tip-off, BSF troops and police busted a hideout en route the shrine in Markote area of Mandi belt in Poonch and recovered the arms and explosives, they said.
The recoveries included five Chinese pistols, eight kg of high-grade explosives, two under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) grenades, 7 Chinese hand-grenades, one anti-tank grenade, 10 Chinese pistol magazines, 325 AK rounds and three improvised explosive devices.
However, no one was arrested in this connec... | |
| | | | 'Wife shortage' to hit China in 2020s | | | | BL KAK
Here is news of much interest from China. Chinese boys of today may face a major problem when they become tomorrow's men-- they will find it very difficult to get hitched, simply because there will not be enough women. No wonder, sociologists are calling for swift measures to be taken to address China's growing gender ratio imbalance.
China now has 37 million more males than females, the People's Daily reported , without giving the source. And the number of males below the age of 15 is 18 million more than females in the same age group, the report said. A census in 2000 showed that the gender ratio between female and male infants was 100 to 116.9, with this widening to 10... | |
| | | | 15 more police battalions needed if troops reduced | | | | Jammu,July 7
The state Government, especially the top police and intelligence agency functionaries,have conveyed to the Defence Secretary,Mr Shekhar Dutt,that the police could take the responsibility of carrying out anti insurgency operations in all the major towns of Kashmir valley if the strength of the Armed police was increased and at least 19 additional companies of paramilitary forces were sent to the state.
Mr Dutt,while reviewing the latest security scenario in a meeting with senior officers of the Army,paramilitary forces,police and intelligence agencies,on Thursday and Friday,in the context of the PDP demand for withdrawal of troops from within the civilian areas was told t... | |
| | | | Protests against alleged HR abuses: PDP sees a silver lining, people worried | | | | SANJAY KHAJURIA
Jammu July 7
There’s an old saying ‘The child who cries the loudest gets the milk first’ while Congress leadership in the state has completely failed to feel the profundity and intensity of these words; the PDP think tank felt the Midas Touch of these words and cried hoarse throat to the self rule and demilitarization and successfully has changed psychic of rural masses.
Observers in state feel that PDP has gained a lot and now is in a ‘win- win situation’ by putting stakes through the sloganeering of ‘far extremes’ like self-rule, demilitarization and zero tolerance.
‘What Mufti failed to achieve while being a part of Congress, he has won by being a rebel, said one of... | |
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