Spy cams to tackle braid-chopping fears

Due to the fear of braid-chopping incidents, Valley residents have started installing spy cameras around their homes. More than 50 braid-chopping cases have been reported so far with the latest incidents coming from Srinagar city. The police have failed to reach any conclusion about the incidents. If the government fails to take any action, these can create a large-scale fair psychosis in Kashmir. — Rifat Mohidin A paltry reward! The police recently announced Rs 6,00,000 reward for persons giving information/assistance in nabbing of suspects in braid-cutting incidents. The police also…

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Fix accountability for growth & accountability: BJP

The BJP has asked for fixing accountability for development, saying that most of the projects that were visualised do not get started and those starting often do not meet their end. BJP state spokesperson Virender Gupta said the project to end the scarcity of drinking water in the city by bringing water from the Chenab was visualised somewhere in 1990, but it is resting in files while the project of providing sewerage facility to the city was visualised in 1992, planned in 2004, started in 2006, but still not completed.…

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Fresh incidents of braid chopping in Ganderbal, Budgam

Two incidents of braid-chopping were reported from Ganderbal district on Sunday evening, triggering scare among the residents, especially women. Locals said that braids of two teenage girls were found chopped off at Rabitar and Naraian bagh villages on Sunday evening. A police official told Kashmir Post that a girl, aged 15, at Rabitar area alleged that some unknown persons chopped off her braid while she was in her room. The girl claimed that after chopping off her braid, the braid chopper jumped over the two-storied building of her house and…

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Clerics of Majlis-e-Shura issue fatwa banning women from travelling alone

A day after the Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh issued a bizarre fatwa banning women from plucking, trimming and shaping their eyebrows and cutting hair, clerics of Majlis-e-Shura, a religious conglomerate in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, on Monday issued a diktat barring women from going out alone in public. According to Times Now, the religious conglomerate issued a list of diktats imposing restrictions on women in the state. According to the diktat, women can’t go to markets and public events alone, they must not interact with men on…

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Kashmir Shuts against increasing braid chopping incidents, Amid protests, kid hit by stone

Clashes in Batamaloo Curbs cripple Downtown Minor injured in Pulwama Police file FIR against locals for thrashing 2 civilians at Nishat Kashmir observed a complete shutdown on Monday against the ‘ongoing’ braid-chopping incidents that have brought the government and the police under fire from people. The call for shutdown was given by the joint separatist leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. The government had imposed strict curbs in MaharajGunj, Safa Kadal, Rainawari and Nowhatta areas of Downtown to thwart protests, even as normal life…

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