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Eight ultras gunned down Mufti lauds role of Army PDF calls for truce among militants, Battlelines drawn in J&K BJP |
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Eight ultras gunned down Srinagar, May 11 Security forces gunned down two militants in an encounter at Rotle Butt Morah in the same district while Mohammad Azam died in the crossfire between militants and security forces at Marhote last night. He said two more militants were gunned down by the security forces during a search operation at Slot Thanamandi while another was killed at Kanger Kharsoo last evening. Large cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the slain militants. Spokesman said two militants surrendered at Surankote while another laid down his arms at Karnah in Kupwara last night. Security forces busted a militant hideout and recovered two wireless sets, three RGP rounds and 500 kg of ration at Ralyal in Doda district, he said. Unidentified militants shot dead Ghulam Nabi Sheikh and injured his sister Kulsooma at Kherhama village in the south Kashmir district of Anantnag last night. In another incident in Baramulla, security forces shot at two persons, Alam Uddin and Roshin Uddin, when they did not pay heed to the signals of security forces to stop at Wachigam in Kupwara late last night. The injured later died.
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Cop killed in IED blast Jammu, May 11 These Army personnel, accompanied by the police, was searching Roulka, village near Bani, where terrorists attacked the police post yesterday. The IED burst during the search operation. The injured have been airlifted to Jammu for treatment. |
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2 cops killed in friendly fire Srinagar, May 11 Alamgir and Kocha were killed by troops of the Rashtriya Rifles, who fired at them in the wee hours, they said. The SPOs usually wear civilian clothes.
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Mufti lauds role of Army Srinagar, May 11 “The Army and the security forces are working in a challenging situation in Jammu and Kashmir and every effort is being made to avoid human rights violations,” he told a private TV channel here today. Mr Sayeed said one must appreciate that the militancy situation was very challenging and while dealing with it “some bad incidents do occur, but we are making even security forces accountable for such lapses”. He, however, appreciated the role of the Army and other security forces in dealing with the situation. Mr Sayeed said people had great expectations from his government, which stood committed to the protection of human rights and whenever any such incident took place, the number of which was much less as compared to the past, the people registered their protest. The government was conscious of its commitments and obligations and took action whenever such mistakes took place, the Chief Minister said.
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PDF calls for truce among militants, India, Pak Jammu, May 11 “We want that militants, India and Pakistan should together announce a ceasefire for stopping bloodshed and create a congenial atmosphere for solution of the Kashmir issue” PDF convener and state Revenue Minister Hakim Mohammad Yaseen said here today. The ceasefire would bring peace in J and K and an atmosphere of friendship would build up for talks between the two neighbours, he said. Mr Yaseen said the solution lies in the creation of a congenial atmosphere that could lead to coming together of India and Pakistan in the ultimate negation of all theories and discords and hate. “For this no preconditions should be laid and no one-sided solution would be accepted as the problem is a trilateral one,” he said. Mr Yaseen further hoped that the process would be taken to its logical and just conclusion for permanent return of peace in J and K. Terming the Kashmir problem as a “decades-old” wound, Mr Yaseen said unless this wound is healed, the people of the South Asian subcontinent would continue to lead a miserable life due to the Indo-Pak conflict.
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Battlelines drawn in J&K BJP Jammu, May 11 The state unit of the BJP is also learnt to have decided to initiate disciplinary action against those party leaders who organised the meeting. It is learnt that after returning from Samba where Dr Nirmal Singh addressed a public meeting yesterday, he discussed the issue with some senior office-bearers of the party. Another meeting of the office-bearers is being held today to formulate the action plan to prevent further indiscipline in the party. Sources said show cause notices were being issued to Mr Shiv Charan Gupta, a veteran BJP leader, who organised the function and his son, Mr Pawan Gupta, who is general secretary of the Udhampur district committee of the party. Similar, action would be taken against Mr Chander Mohan Sharma, vice-president of the state, BJP Kuldeep Raj Gupta, a member of the state working committee of the party and master Sohan Lal, president of the Kisan Morcha. It is learnt that permission of the high command is being sought to dissolve the Jammu district committee of the BJP headed by Mr Sat Pal Grover as the unit has become a “trouble shooter” for Dr Nirmal Singh. The local district unit is being accused of supporting Mr Chaman Lal Gupta. The state BJP is not in a position to initiate any action against Mr Chaman Lal Gupta because he is a member of the national executive of the party and a minister at the Centre. As such, only the BJP high command is competent to decide whether to take any action against him or not. Mr Gupta had made it clear at the yesterday’s function that celebration of the golden jubilee of the Praja Parishad was not an anti-party activity because the parishad had spearheaded the movement for the complete integration of J&K with India in the early
fifties when many stalwarts sacrificed their lives for the national cause. The Praja Parishad was later merged into. Groupism has been simmering in the BJP here eversince the earlier unit was dissolved and Dr Nirmal Singh was appointed president. The other faction has not liked his appointment and has been defying his directives. Rivalry in the party had been growing after the defeat of Dr Nirmal Singh in the byelection to the Jammu Lok Sabha seat when it is alleged that the other faction which was in power in the organisation left no stone unturned to pull his legs. |
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Mini-bus operators flout govt order Jammu, May 11 Many women have complained that the mini-bus operators misbehaved with them when they insisted on paying the fare fixed by the government. Despite the assurance of Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma, who also holds the transport portfolio mini-bus operators have started fleecing the passengers. Meanwhile, the Principal Secretary, Transport, Mr A.S. Sidhu, today said the government stuck to its stand regarding passenger fare. Mr Sidhu asked people to lodge complaints with the traffic police or the Transport Department in case any mini-bus operator overcharged or misbehaved with them. |
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No end to her tale of woes Jammu, May 11 This is the tragic saga of 30-year-old Neha, a Kashmiri migrant, who was married to a businessman of Ambala, Surinder Chawla. In her petition filed before the Additional District Judge, Jammu, and the High Court in Jammu, Neha had stated that after seven months of her marriage in 1995, her husband and in-laws started demanding dowry. She alleged that she was also tortured by her husband. This forced her to knock at the doors of court and the Additional District Judge, in his judgment given on December 11, 2002, accepted the petition and directed Surinder Chawla to pay a monthly maintenance allowance of Rs 5,000 and arrears to the tune of Rs 1.55 lakh. In his later judgment, Mr justice T.S. Doabia, Judge of the High Court, had upheld the judgment of the Additional District Judge with a direction that the Inspector General of Police, Jammu, should send a senior officer to Ambala to execute the court warrant. Neha has, in her latest statement to the court, stated that Surinder Chawla contacted her and assured her that he would welcome leading a normal married life with her. This prompted her to withdraw the case in the court, and the court dismissed the petition “as compromise”. The court of the Additional District Judge in its judgment on March 4, 2003, “disposed of the petition and consigned the file to the records”. When Neha returned to Ambala along with her son, she was again maltreated by her husband. She has said, in a signed statement, that she was beaten by her husband, who had also refused to pay Rs 40,000 as admission fee for his son, who had to enroll himself in a school in Ambala. She has alleged that she was dragged out of her house in Ambala, and when she went to the police station to file an FIR, she was told that a copy of the same would be sent to her in Jammu. She has said that the SP of Ambala had made arrangements for her three-day stay at a hotel in Ambala before she returned to Jammu to lead a life of penury and depression. Neha has approached the court again, seeking direction to the SHO, Ambala police station, to forward a copy of her FIR to her in Jammu. The woman in distress has said that she has been left with no alternative but to seek court intervention so that its judgment of December 11, 2002, in which Surinder Chawla had been asked to pay a monthly maintenance allowance besides the arrears of Rs 1.55 lakhs to Neha, was revalidated. She has said that in order to avoid implementation of the court order, Surinder Chawla had feigned amity and made a false promise of a patch-up. Meanwhile, leaders of the All-State Kashmiri Pandit Conference have requested the Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, to direct the police authorities in Ambala to deal firmly with Surinder Chawla. |
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