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| Handcuffed militant shot at Police constables, flees from court complex pulwama | | |
Srinagar, September 7: A handcuffed LeT militant shot dead a police constable in the court premises at Pulwama on Thursday following which his accomplices hurled a grenade and fear gripped panic among people in the township.
Reports reaching Srinagar indicate that LeT militant Mohd Altaf alias Pintoo S/O Gh Hassan R/O Litter Pulwam arrested on charges of killing a railway engineer and his brother on June 23, 2004 was brought from Central jail Srinagar to the court of District and Session Judge Pulwama for his appearance during a hearing before the court.
Eye witness told KNS that one of the police constables deployed for his security Gh Qadir, Belt No: 443/AWT was standing close to handcuffed LeT militant with one side of the chain tied to his hand, when he surprisingly took out a pistol from his pocket, fired upon constable Gh Qadir twice and jumped over a 5 feet long wall. The handcuffed militant find an escape route near a shopping complex and fled from the spot. The constable Gh Qadir was critically injured and shifted to SKIMS Soura immediately. Meanwhile accomplices of LeT militant Altaf Ahmed hurled a grenade outside court premises which exploded with a big bang and people ran helter skelter in panic to safer places.
Though no loss of life was property was reported after the grenade explosion, but fear gripped panic among people in the township, as shopkeepers pulled down their shutters and streets wore a deserted look. Police and Security forces closed the main gate of court complex and launched a manhunt to nab the absconding LeT militant and his accomplices who hurled a grenade.
Police sources that it is being investigated that from where LeT militant got the pistol while in custody. However it has been learnt that few people met Altaf Ahmed outside the court premises and a finger of suspicion on those persons also and possibly one of them handed over the pistol to him.
Altaf Ahmed, according to police, was arrested in the year 2004 on the charges of killing a non local railway engineer Sudhir and his brother on June 23, 2004, who were working for IRCON. Arrested by Awantipora police, a case under FIR.No: 103/04, U/S 302,392,364 RPC and 7/25 Arms act was registered against LeT militant Altaf Ahmed. Detained in Srinagar Central jail, Altaf Ahmed was produced before District Court Pulwama several times, but he managed to escape with the active help of his accomplices on Thursday last.
PDP axe to fall on beneficiaries of "land to the tillers": NC
Srinagar, September 7?KNS: National Conference Provincial President Dr Mehboob Baig here on Thursday came down heavily on PDP leadership for trying to depriver tillers of their rights given to them under the policy "land to the tiller", the architect of which is National Conference founder late Sheikh Mohd Abdullah. Saying that demand for restoration of special powers to the state under article 370 of Indian Constitution means the deprivation of the rights given to tiller under the policy 'land to the tiller" by late Sheikh Mohd Abdullah, Baig claimed that no agreement was signed between the state and the center from 1947 and 1953, but the when when agreements were implemented, most of the National Conference leaders were jailed and some of them were exiled under a deep rooted political conspiracy hatched against National Conference leadership in 1953.
Alleging that PDP president gives one description of self rule before Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, but claims the champion of an entirely different self rule while in Kashmir, Baig said that division of the state under self rule is the motive of PDP leadership and condemned it for pursuing the policy of double speak and double standards. Meanwhile Baig also visited flood hit Boat Colony Bemina, Khanabal Anantnag, Nathpora Batpora and Mominabad areas and urged the State Government for immediate relief among the victims. |
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