Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 26
In a bizarre incident, the Army today detained 17 people for entering to Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir from the Pakistani side without valid travel documents.
The three men, four women and 10 children were intercepted and detained said a Srinagar based spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir Police.
The detained people, belonging to four families, said they were returning to their homes on the Indian side of the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir after 15 years, said Lt. Col. A. K. Mathur.
They said they traveled to Pakistan-held Kashmir in the early 1990s after an insurgency broke out in the Indian side, and that they were residents of Gawalan and Nambla, two villages about 150 kilometers (95 miles) north of Kashmir's main city Srinagar, Mathur said.
"These are civilian families and they are being handed over to police," he said.
It wasn't immediately clear if the families had valid travel documents when they crossed the cease-fire line in the 1990s.
The Police spokesman identified them as Shamima Akhtar, age 10, daughter of Mohammad Rafiq, Shah Naz Akhtar, age 8, daughter of Mohammad Rafiq, Zaheen Akhtar, age 6, daughter of Mohammad Rafiq, Sara, age3, daughter of Mohammad Rafiq, Mohammad Shafiq, age 14, son of Mohammad Rafiq, Mohammad Royeel, age2, son of Mohammad Rafiq, Mohammad Rafiq, age 45, son of Mohammad Akram, Hashim Begum, age 40, wife of Mohammad Rafiq, Mohammad Akbar, age 45, son of Salam Din, Hamida Begum, age 40, wife of Mohammad Akbar, Naseema Akhtar, age 16, daughter of Mohammad Akbar, Shaheen Akhtar, age 13, daughter of Mohammad Akbar, Sabia, age 7, daughter of Mohammad Akbar, Mohammad Zahid, age 6, son of Mohammad Akbar, Shameema Akhtar, age 2, daughter of Mohammad Akbar, residents of Gawalan Uri, Mehraj-ud-Din, age 25, son of Qasim Din, resident of Mothal Uri and Shaheen Akhtar, age 18, wife of Mehraj-ud-Din, resident of Mothal Uri. |
