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SOG lands police in tight spot
Umar to meet Musharraf
Use of polythene may be cognizable
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BSF jawan among four killed
BSF hands over charge to CRPF in Srinagar
Bismillah Khan to perform in Kashmir
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SOG lands police in tight spot
Jammu, September 11 A complaint in this regard has been made to the newly set up accountability commission by a police officer who was earlier transferred to an insignificant position when he raised the issue before senior officers. The chairman of the commission, Mr Justice
R.P. Sethi, who is a retired judge of the Supreme Court, has sought a report from the DGP, Mr Gopal Sharma, in the matter. It is learnt that the police officer Surjeet Singh, who is an assistant sub-inspector of police, has named some senior officers, including a DSP, in his complaint. He has pointed out that the SOG headed by a DSP raided the house of a smuggler here and recovered a rare idol of Lord Buddha weighing 10 kg and 5 kg of heroin. The smuggler along with his son and two others were arrested and kept in a house for interrogation during which the deal was struck between them and the DSP. The ASI has complained that all the four persons were later released without registering any FIR. The seized property was then shown on papers as having found abandoned in the Gandhi Nagar locality and a flimsy case was registered in the local police station. He has alleged that certain top officers of the police were involved in hushing up the case as the DSP distributed Rs 8 lakhs among them and kept Rs 1.50 lakhs with him. The commission has ordered the DGP to file his report on an affidavit by September 27. This is not for the first time that the SOG has landed the state police in an embarrassing position. Because of its alleged involvement in a series of fake encounters and fabricated cases, the group had become a terror in the state during the earlier regime. Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed had, before coming to power, promised that the SOG would be disbanded. However, he fell in line with the previous government on the issue and has allowed the SOG to function. |
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Umar to meet Musharraf
Srinagar, September 11 Observers here believe that when the APHC chairman meets the Pakistan President “he should extend the dialogue process further” going on over the past so many months, “though nothing tangible has come out yet”. The mainstream political parties like the PDP and the Congress are optimistic about the developments taking place as both the coalition partners claim the credit for further developments in the dialogue process over the past couple of years. However, it is believed that “progress is slow” even as the talks taking place at various levels is a good step forward. It is also believed that “many things are not happening so quickly” as these should have taken place, said a PDP leader. He added that no concrete steps were being taken to check the human rights violations, release of those detained and restraining Ikhwanis or counter-insurgents. On the other hand, the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani is not happy with the dialogue process. Geelani opines that the Centre-APHC talks were a futile exercise, for India did not soften its stand on the Kashmir issue, and at the same time blames Pakistan for shifting its stance on Kashmir. Though National Conference President Omar Abdullah welcomed the Centre-APHC talks, he questioned the Hurriyat’s agenda. Advocating internal autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah believes that many parties had hijacked the 50-year-old agenda of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. As head of the Hurriyat delegation, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq held a meeting of the leaders of APHC constituent groups here yesterday and apprised them of the meeting with the Prime Minister. “I will inform the Pakistan President about our meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh”, he said. |
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Use of polythene may be cognizable offence, says CM
Srinagar, September 11 This was indicated by Chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed while addressing schoolchildren at a function to create awareness on the preservation of the Dal Lake here yesterday. He said protection of environment was priority of the government. “My government is determined to protect environment in Jammu and Kashmir and I am seeking legal opinion to see if the use of polythene is made cognizable offence,” he said adding legal experts would be asked to deliberate on the subject and inform the government about their opinion. He said based on the opinion if a law is required to be made it would be done. He said indiscriminate use of polythene affected environment of Kashmir valley and referred to Pahalgam where people leave behind heaps of non-biodegradable material. The Chief Minister said preservation of the environment for a state like Jammu and Kashmir was of the utmost significance. He said important tourist places drawing tourists in large numbers could not be allowed to be ruined by the people’s indifference towards environment. Concerted effort on the part of the government as well as people’s commitment to their heritage would bring the desired results, he added. Mufti Sayeed said the government had sent a Rs. 250 crore project for the preservation and improvement of the Dal Lake to the Centre and Union Minister for Urban Development Ghulam Nabi Azad had informed him that the project had been cleared by the Union Ministries of Urban Development and Environment. The project, he said, would also take care of the relocation of the Dal dwellers. He said the state government was constructing six sewage treatment plants around the Dal to allow only treated drainage water into the Lake. The Chief Minister also referred to the government’s plan to beautify the Jhelum embankments and said encroachments on the river banks had been removed and the “bundh” was being restored to its old glory. He said the bundh had been a centre of tourist attraction in the past and this place would be restored. |
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Hotels asked to remove opaque cabins by Sept 17
Srinagar, September 11 All hotels, restaurants and cyber cafes have been asked to remove such cabins by September 17which were being “misused”, according to Mr Muneer Khan, SSP, Srinagar. Action would be taken against those who did not remove cabins by the deadline said Mr Khan. He added opaque cabins at such establishments were being misused by anti-social and anti-national elements. “The rise in crime is a cause of concern for the Police”, said Mr Javed Makhdoomi, Inspector-General of Police, Kashmir Range. He sought cooperation of people to check rising crime and social evils. Seeking cooperation of owners of these business establishments, SSP Srinagar Khan said that these cabins in some hotels, restaurants and cyber cafes were unauthorised and these were being misused by anti-social and anti-national elements. He said the Police had launched an operation against social evils. Four youths were held by the police from a hotel in Lal Chowk area here yesterday, where four couples were found inside the dark cabins, the police said. “We are taking action after proper verifications’, Mr Khan said and added that the Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Ms Asiya Andrabi had undertaken unlawful means and harassment. Ms Asiya Andrabi, chief of the women’s underground outfit, the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, with her associates had raided several hotels here last month and roughed up several women allegedly involved in flesh trade. She later was arrested and detained under the Public Safety Act along with her eight colleagues for various secessionist activities. Her campaign against social evils like flesh trade had been supported by various organisations and the High Court Bar Association rallied behind her seeking her release. |
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BSF jawan among four killed
Srinagar, September 11 Militants barged into the house of Master Mir Hussain at Dhok Plani in Rajouri district last night and opened indiscriminate fire on the inmates, an official spokesman said here today. Hussain and his 17-year-old son Mohammad Irshad were killed in the firing, he said. The ultras ambushed a patrol party of the Border Security Force in Badgam district today, killing a jawan, the spokesman said. The troops of 76th battalion, BSF, were on patrol duty when they were fired upon by waiting militants in the Shah Mohalla area of Chadoora in Badgam district around 7 am, he said. Head Constable L.D. Majhi was hit by a bullet. He died while being shifted to hospital. One militant was killed in an encounter with the security forces at Khanabal in the Macchil sector of Kupwara district, the spokesman said, adding one AK rifle, three magazines, 42 rounds, one wireless set and some Indian currency were seized from the possession of the slain militant.
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BSF hands over charge to CRPF in Srinagar
Srinagar, September 11 The transition is part of the process by which the entire command of the summer capital would be handed over by the BSF to the CRPF in a phased manner by the end of this month. The takeover is on the request of the Jammu and Kashmir Government. The sources said the 43rd battalion of the BSF, deployed in the Lal Chowk area, was replaced by the CRPF’s 131 battalion this morning.
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Bismillah Khan to perform in Kashmir
Srinagar, September 11 A press release by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages said the maestro would perform at Tagore Hall here. The music programme is organised by the academy in collaboration with the University of Jammu and the Spic-Macay, Jammu chapter. Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will also attend the programme.
— UNI |
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