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DCs asked to enforce poll code firmly 60 Haj conference delegates arrive July 13 carnage: 1 ultra killed, other arrested
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NC activist, two ultras killed Srinagar, August 3 Elsewhere in the valley, two security personnel were among nine killed and five injured where four militants surrendered during the period. A group of militants intruded into the house of Ali Mohammad Dar, Sarpanch and block president of National Conference at Koochipora in the Qazigund area of Anantnag district, last night and shot him dead, the spokesman said. Ultras also entered the house of another block president of the National Conference Ghulam Hassan Bhat at Babapora Shopian who managed to escape. The militants overpowered his security officer and snatched his service carbine, the spokesman said. Two unidentified militants were killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Nowshera in the Gurez sector of Baramula district last evening, the spokesman said adding that two pistols, six grenades and some ammunition rounds were seized from them. A large quantity of explosives and ammunition, including 50 hand grenades, were recovered from an arrested militant in the valley, he said. The spokesman said constable of the J and K police Hakumat Singh who had sustained injuries in a grenade attack by militants at Jehangir Chowk in Srinagar on Thursday succumbed to injuries in hospital. Militants kidnapped a property broker, Fayaz Ahmad, from Mustaffabad-Zainakote in Srinagar today. Later his body was found from a village near Shalteng, the spokesman said. He said a civilian identified as Abdul Gaffar Mir was killed in an exchange of fire between militants and police in Pulwama district last evening. The spokesman said security forces arrested a militant at Pachhama-Boniyar in Baramula district and seized 50 hand grenades, two AK magazines, 50 AK rounds, a pistol, 50 pistol rounds, seven detonators, 5 kg explosive powder, and a grenade gun from his house. Four militants surrendered before security forces at Kantwari Nar in the frontier district of Kupwara yesterday, the spokesman said, adding that they handed over three AK rifles, a pistol, eight grenades and huge quantity of ammunition to the authorities. He said an IED planted by militants on a road at Nowdal-Tral in Pulwama district was detected and neutralised by the bomb disposal squad.
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Panun Kashmir to boycott poll New Delhi, August 3 “The elections are a futile exercise for us... we are boycotting them in protest against the callousness of the Centre and state government towards our exodus and genocide,” Panun Kashmir convener Agnishekhar said here. “We have full faith in the democratic process and the Constitution of the country... but since we have been deprived of our fundamental right to live in our homeland, why and who for shall we vote?” he added. But he hastened to add that the organisation’s rejection of the poll had no truck with the separatist All-Party Hurriyat Conference. “Our boycott is not connected with the amalgam’s stand on the Assembly poll... our issues are different from their’s,” he clarified. Dr Agnishekhar said the electoral process had failed to enthuse the community since the people were not even aware of the candidates or political parties representing them. “The displaced people have no idea who represents them in their constituencies... the community has been living in exile for 13 years and voting in such circumstances is not possible,’’ he added. The Election Commission has only made provisions for migrants to vote in Delhi, Udhampur and Jammu which belies the fact that the community is scattered all over the country, he said. The Election Commission yesterday announced elections to the 87-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly in four phases from September 16 to October 8. Chief Election Commissioner
J.M. Lyngdoh had said special arrangements had been made for Kashmiri Pandits to vote through electronic voting machines in Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi, besides the usual option of postal ballot.
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Bhim Singh for poll under ‘neutral’ govt Jammu, August 3 Mr Bhim Singh talking to mediapersons here, said free and fair elections could not be held here under the Abdullah regime as Dr Farooq Abdullah was “power hungry” and was now planning to pass on the power to his son, Mr Omar Abdullah. He alleged that the Election Commissione was functioning like an agent of Dr Abdullah which announced the Assembly elections without updating the electoral rolls and bypassing the provisions of the Constitution which provided for the delimitation of constituencies after each census. He said he would file a contempt petition against the Election Commission and Dr Abdullah in the court. Free and fair elections were not possible without fresh electoral rolls, photo-identity cards and delimitation of constituencies. Meanwhile, Mr Bhim Singh has submitted a list of office-bearers of his party to the Director General of police sought police protection for them so that they could participate in the election process. |
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DCs asked to enforce poll code firmly Srinagar, August 3 An official spokesman said the Committee of Secretaries met here last evening under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Mr I.S. Malhi, and discussed in detail the model code of conduct. The Chief Secretary asked Administrative Secretaries to forward the list of scheduled inaugurals and other official functions for the next couple of days to the Chief Electoral Officer so that prior permission of the Election Commission is sought for these events. Mr Malhi directed all Deputy Commissioners to strictly follow the model code of conduct. The Chief Electoral Officer, Mr Pramod Jain, explained the salient features of the model code and emphasised that it would be the responsibility of “all of us to ensure that the provisions of the model code of conduct are observed in letter and spirit.” The Financial Commissioner, Mr J.A. Khan, stated that during the operation of the model code no transfers, postings, promotions and ad hoc appointments could be made. No licences could be issued, nor discretionary grants used. He said the Constituency Development Fund also stood freezed. Clarifying the use of the Constituency Development Fund, the Chief Secretary explained that payments in respect of works, which had already been completed, could be released. Schemes that had already been approved and on which work had commenced before the imposition of the model code of conduct could continue. However, no new work, even though it had been approved, could be taken up and no fresh releases made under the MP, MLA Local Area Fund, he said. |
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60 Haj conference delegates arrive Srinagar, August 3 Union Minister of State for External Affairs and National Conference President Omar Abdullah will inaugurate the conference at the S K International Convention Centre. Besides Mr Abdullah, the Conference, spread over four sessions, would be addressed by Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Shahnawaz Hussain, Union Minister of State for Defence Chaman Lal Gupta and Mr Ahmad. The Consular General of India, Jeddah, Syed Akbaruddin is to make a presentation about Haj, 2002. As many as 6,454 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir performed Haj this year.
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July 13 carnage: 1 ultra killed, other arrested Jammu, August 3 The police was after Mohd. Idnan and his accomplice Abu Tala. The militants entered the Raika forest belt on the outskirts of Jammu city yesterday. The police managed to kill Idnan, but Abu ran away. He was looking for a shelter. At 4 a.m. today Abu knocked at the door of Kaka Gujjar. He requested for food and a place for offering ‘nimaz’. Kaku allowed him in on the condition he kept his bag outside the house, which he did. As Abu started offering ‘nimaz’ the Gujjar’s family searched his bag and found one assault rifle, one grenade and ammunition. Kaku and his son Zakir pounced on Abu and tied him to a pole. The militant tried to free himself but the Gujjars overpowered him. Kaku Gujjar informed the police from a nearby phone booth. A police party reached the hut at 6 a.m. and took Abu in custody. The Inspector General Police, Mr P.L. Gupta told newsmen here today that three police personnel were killed in the operations. |
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Woman from PoK, daughter released Jammu, August 3 Her
release order was issued by a Division Bench of the High Court
comprising Mr Justice T.S. Dobia and Mr Justice S.K. Gupta after
hearing a public interest litigation filed by the World Human Rights
Protection yesterday. The court had directed the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) to meet Shehnaz and find out where she wanted to go. The judges also ordered the state government to pay Rs 3 lakh as compensation to her. The CJM visited the jail today and Shehnaz decided to be the guest of an advocate until the government provide accommodation to her, as directed by the Division Bench. After having an argument with her husband, she had strayed into the Indian territory in 1995. She was arrested by the Army and handed over to the police. The police filed a case and she was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. She was detained in a Poonch jail where, as per court records, she was raped by the jail warden. Since she had no where to go she was kept in the jail without a detention order. The police approached Pakistani forces to accept her back but they refused. Later she was asked to cross over alone and leave her child in Jammu as she had an Indian father. |
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