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Natipora accused seeks bail
Property worth crores destroyed in a major fire at Baramulla
Kashmir freezes as mercury plunges to -1.7°C in Srinagar
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7 hurt in road accidents
Kashmir University goes for cost-cutting
Woman found dead in Srinagar
PDD employee dies on duty
‘Minor’ has been
languishing in police stations for 12 days
Muharram mourning continues
Moderate Hurriyat Conference supports JKLF’s call for strike on December 10
Traders fined in Pulwama
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Natipora accused seeks bail
Srinagar, December 9 The Natipora murder case involves killing of 65-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Shah of Budshah Nagar, Natipora allegedly by Almas Ara, her husband and two sons in July this year during a fight over dumping of garbage. In the bail application moved through her counsel, Almas has submitted that she is suffering from many ailments and her health may deteriorate further if she is kept under continued judicial custody. Following Shah’s killing on July 4 this year, Almas was arrested along with her husband Dr Maqsood Hussain Khan, his two sons - Sadat Hussain Khan and Fahad Hussain Khan, and sent to jail for allegedly murdering Shah. Almas, who is currently under judicial remand at District Jail Baramulla, in her bail application, has further stated that she has been falsely implicated in the case on the basis of a false and frivolous complaint. Her bail plea has been opposed by the complainant family and the local welfare committee, saying that granting her bail at this stage may influence the trial. “Our belief is that if the above mentioned accused is bailed out, she will surely tamper with the evidence of the case as well as influence the witnesses. We have full faith in justice and judiciary of the state and therefore appeal to the courts that she should not be set free on bail,” the local welfare committee has said in statement while objecting to the bail of accused Almas, which is listed for further hearing on December 11. Following the incident on July 4, the J-K Police had registered a case against the accused family under Section 302 (murder) and produced a chargesheet against the four accused of the family before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar. Subsequently, the CJM committed the case for trial to Sessions Court on September 8. The killing
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Property worth crores destroyed in a major fire at Baramulla
Baramulla, December 9 Several furniture shops in the complex added fuel to the fire as the entire complex went up in flames in a few minutes, eyewitnesses said. A computer institute and an office of an NGO were also destroyed in the fire. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained, reports said. The Army soon pressed into service its fire tenders and the fire was brought under control after four hours. The locals hailed the efforts by the Army in dousing the flames. The fire tenders, the affected shopkeepers alleged, took more time than anticipated in reaching the spot. “The fire tenders had to cover less than one km but they took at least 40 minutes to reach the spot. The loss could have been minimised had the fire-fighting team reached the affected building in time,” said Habibullah, whose shop was destroyed in the fire. The incident set off panic in the town during the night hours and locals rushed to the spot. Another shopkeeper Bashir Ahmad said, “The fire could have been brought under control had the fire tenders reached the spot in time. The phone of the main fire station in Baramulla was not working and fire tenders from Delina station, 6 km from Baramulla, reached first.” The affected shopkeepers said the fire inflicted a loss of around four crore rupees. Meanwhile, in two separate fire incidents, at least five structures were gutted. According to police, timber shop of Mohammed Yousuf Najar at Fruit Mandi, Parimpora on the outskirts of Srinagar was complete damaged in the fire in the wee hours today. The fire was brought under control with the help of fire tenders and local police. Parimpora police has registered a case. In another incident, fire broke out in a departmental store of Abdul Rashid Sheikh of Seloo in Sopore town this morning. The fire soon engulfed two shops. All the structures were damaged in the fire.
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Kashmir freezes as mercury plunges to -1.7°C in Srinagar
Srinagar, December 9 In the city here, the minimum temperature overnight fell to minus 1.7 degrees Celsius, which is a dip of more than three degrees from the low of last night. The day temperature in the city was recorded at 12.9 degrees Celsius, which is three degrees above the normal for this time of the year. The weather department forecast suggested the minimum temperature around the city on Monday night will fall further to minus 2.0 degrees Celsius. Most parts of the valley had recorded a warm last night, with mercury remaining above the zero degree mark across the plains. At Pahalgam resort in south Kashmir, the minimum temperature was recorded at minus 3.0 degrees Celsius. In Leh town of remote Ladakh region, mercury overnight fell to minus 10.2 degrees Celsius and in the nearby Kargil district, the mercury overnight fell to minus 6.4 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Ladakh region usually hovers many degrees below the freezing point in winter months, sometimes falling down to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. The Ladakh region remains cut off from the rest of the state for most of the winter as heavy snow along the Srinagar-Leh road shuts access to the mountainous Ladakh. Kashmir valley is gearing up for a harsh winter, which is set to begin 11 days later, when 'Chillai Kalaan' - a 40-day long harshest phase of the season - begins. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature in frontier Kupwara town in North Kashmir was recorded at minus 1.7 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature in South Kashmir’s Qazigund town was recorded at minus 1.6 degrees Celsius, the official said. Weather is expected to remain dry for the next 24 hours, with western disturbances likely to affect the region on December 11 and 12. |
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7 hurt in road accidents
Srinagar, December 9 In another accident near Sopore town in North Kashmir, a passenger bus hit a car at Seelo, injuring four persons, the spokesman said. All the four injured have been hospitalised. Police has registered cases in both the accidents, the spokesman said. |
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Kashmir University goes for cost-cutting
Srinagar, December 9 Highly placed official sources told The Tribune that at a meeting chaired by the VC, Prof Talat Ahmad, it was decided that the facility of private vehicles would be withdrawn in case of HoDs, Deans and senior faculty members, as the university is reeling under an acute financial crunch. “Although a formal notification is yet to be issued, the private vehicle services are most likely to be barred from the next week onwards at the varsity. It had become pertinent as the university was unable to pay its employees their salaries on time,” an administrative official, wishing anonymity, said. After the directive is enforced, the private vehicles would be used only by the trio of VC, Registrar and Controller of Examinations. The decision, meanwhile, has not gone down well with senior teaching and non-teaching faculty members of Kashmir University. “Even in Jammu University and other state universities, senior staffers have been allotted the vehicles for private use. The university should come out with a way to tackle the crisis and not bar officials from using the facilities,” a senior faculty member said. |
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Woman found dead in Srinagar
Srinagar, December 9 The women is aged around 50 and her body has been kept at the SKIMS Hospital. Police has launched an investigation, it was stated. In South Kashmir, an unidentified man’s body was found in the
Lidder stream near Pahalgam resort, the spokesman said. The spokesman said the man is believed to be aged around 30 and his body has been kept at District Hospital Anantnag. Police has initiated proceedings under Section 174 of CrPC. |
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PDD employee dies on duty
Srinagar, December 9 Ashraf was taken to District Hospital Anantnag, where he succumbed to the injuries, the spokesman said, adding his body had been handed over to his next of kin for last rites. Police has registered a case, the spokesman said. |
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‘Minor’ has been
languishing in police stations for 12 days
Srinagar, December 9 The boy, a resident of old city’s
Gojwara locality, has been detained under seven sections of the RPC. The
counsels on Friday moved a bail application at a local court and pleaded
that the boy was a juvenile under the law of land and international law. “He
is a law-abiding child. He never committed any offence or involved in
any activity prejudicial to the security of the state,” the
application stated. Makhdoomi said the court had granted bail to the
boy but ‘when his parents went to the Nowhatta police station, the
officer in charge rejected the bail application’. “This is not the
first time the police has violated the law, they should have sent the
boy to the juvenile home but instead they had kept him in the lock-up
for 10 days where he was beaten and tortured,” Makhdoomi claimed. No senior police official was immediately available for the comment. A police official at the Parimpora police station confirmed the boy is in their custody but said he has no idea about his age. The state government has come under criticism from human rights groups, including Amnesty International, for arresting teenaged boys and locking them in facilities which have no special childcare support. Last
week, the Amnesty International issued a statement asking the
authorities here to ‘halt the practice of arbitrary detentions in the
state, in particular of children’ and reiterated its call to the JK
government to amend the Juvenile Justice Act to bring it into a line
with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
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Muharram mourning continues
Srinagar, December 9 He said the main procession at the summer capital would be taken out at the Shalimar area besides other Shia-dominated areas across the Valley. Members of the Shia community take out several processions throughout the Muharram month to mourn the sacrifice of Imam Hussain and his companions. However, the main procession is taken out on the 10th Muharram (Ashura). With the Ashura procession, which used to pass through city centre Lal Chowk, being banned by the government after the eruption of militancy
in the state, the Shias now take out processions in the interiors. While the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) and his companions is also mourned by the Sunni community, especially during Friday sermons, the Shias hold religious functions in this regard on a larger scale. Meanwhile, in view of tomorrow’s scheduled procession, the government has issued traffic restrictions at several parts. “Srinagar-bound vehicles from north Kashmir--- Kupwara, Handwara and Sopore--- will move via Hygan to Sumbal to HMT. Vehicles from Pattan will move to Srinagar via the Hartarth bridge to Khanpath to Shadipora to HMT. Heavy motor vehicles moving towards north Kashmir from Srinagar will move via Narbal and Magam to turn right near the SDPO office, Magam, to Kungumdara to Khore to Hanjiwara to Pattan,” a police official said. “Light vehicles moving towards north Kashmir from Srinagar will move to Baramulla via Narbal to Khanihama to Nooripora to Archanderhama to Gund Kjoja Qasim to Singpora Pattan,” he said. |
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Moderate Hurriyat Conference supports JKLF’s call for strike on December 10
Srinagar, December 9 The JKLF headed by Yasin Malik has called for a complete bandh on December 10 to protest against against the life sentence awarded to two former JKLF militants. The bandh will also be supported by the Kashmir Bar Association and the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, which is headed by Syed Ali Geelani. “The Hurriyat supports the shutdown call given by the JKLF and reiterates its support to detainees languishing in different jails,” a spokesman for the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference said in a statement here. He said in view of the strike called by the JKLF, the Hurriyat had decided to cancel the seminar on December 10 and that the new schedule for the same would be announced later. “Mirwaiz has expressed his displeasure over awarding life sentences to various Kashmiri detainees and termed these decisions as against the principles of justice,” the spokesman said. Meanwhile, a group of Hurriyat leaders has held consultations with people, including members of minority communities, at several places in Jammu,
a Hurriyat spokesman said here. “On the instructions of Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz, Syed Saleem Geelani and Zaffar Akbar Bhat held consultations with people from Bhaderwah, Kishtawar, Rajouri and Doda at the Press Club, Jammu, and Talab Tilloo, which included members from minority communities,” the spokesman said. While explaining the importance and the need of Hurriyat leaders’ forthcoming Pakistan visit, the two leaders told the people at Jammu that the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) wanted to find a permanent solution of the Kashmir issue as per the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiri people, including the minorities living there, the spokesman said. On Saturday, the APHC chairman had convened a meeting with representatives of minority communities, including the Sikhs and the Pandits, at the Rajbagh headquarters of Hurriyat in Srinagar. He said the Hurriyat wants to consult and hold deliberations with
every section of the Kashmiris, including the minorities, and groups representing every region of the state to arrive at
a solution for the Kashmir problem, the spokesman said. |
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Traders fined in Pulwama
Srinagar, December 9 Ten traders were pulled up during the raids and a fine of Rs 9,700 was recovered from them. “A team of officials from the Legal Metrology Unit, Pulwama, headed by Assistant Controller Kewal Krishan inspected different business establishments, including timber depots and provisional stores, of Lassipora and the Arihal area of the district and slapped a fine of Rs 9,700 on offenders for violating various sections of the Jammu and Kashmir Standard of Weight and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1997,” an official said. “Out of the total fine, Rs 7,000 was recovered from a timber trader for selling undersized timber,” he said. Meanwhile, the Assistant Controller directed all the traders, particularly timber traders, to use correct and verified weight and measure instruments.
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Minimum temperature across the Kashmir region again plunged below the freezing point, with mercury here falling close to the minus two degrees Celsius mark.
