Category: Community

Border dwellers warn mass migration to Jammu with cattle, belongings, threaten to encroach ministers’ houses

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Enraged over the “casual approach” being adopted by the successive state governments to ensure their security, border dwellers on Sunday threatened to encroach on palatial official bungalows of ministers and legislators to “make them realise how it feels to be displaced amid scorching heat”. Border inhabitants have also warned mass migration with their cattle and belongings from their respective villages to Jammu to “awake the ruling elites from deep slumber”. “Our patience is running out. Killing of innocent civilians and extensive damage to property has become a routine affair on…

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Resistance Camp maintain discreet silence over Rajnath’s talks offer

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While senior separatist leaders have maintained a discreet silence over the dialogue offer by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the Democratic Freedom Party, led by jailed Hurriyat Conference leader Shabir Shah, said the seriousness of the offer would be determined only if the government orders the forces to go back to the barracks, engages all parties of the dispute in talks and releases all political prisoners. The party said it would help in creating a conducive atmosphere for dialogue as it was the only effective way to resolve issues. “However, it…

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On PMO’s request Paytm provided personal data of Kashmiris to a political party

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In a major expose mobile wallet company Paytm has allegedly provided personal data of Kashmiri users to a political party on the request from PMO during stone throwing incidents in Kashmir. The company’s bosses have also claimed that they are affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The expose has been carried out through sting operation by investigative news website, Cobrapost. In the video purportedly shot by Cobrapost senior Vice President of the company Ajay Shekhar is saying that the PMO wanted personal data of Paytm’s users to find out if some…

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Hotel fracas: Girl states she met Major of her ‘Own Will’

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In the investigation into the fracas involving Major Leetul Gogoi at a hotel in Srinagar on Wednesday, the Jammu & Kashmir Police have recorded the statement of the girl who was detained with him. The Army officer had courted controversy last year when he had made a youth in Budgam a human shield to escape stone-throwers during parliamentary bypoll. In the statement recorded before a Magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC, which is voluntary and admissible as evidence, the girl has said that she came to the hotel “of…

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Smartphone overindulgence blamed for weapons snatching in Valley

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Blaming overindulgence in use of smartphones by police personnel for spike in weapon-snatching incidents in the Valley, Jammu and Kashmir Police has banned use of such gadgets by its sentries during duty time. The order, issued by Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Armed, AK Choudhary, on Wednesday, said the tendency not only lowered the image of the police, but also compromised with personal security of individuals. “It has been observed that recent weapon-snatching incidents have occurred due to the reason that sentries on duty remain engaged with their smartphones…

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Infamous human shield expert major Leetul Gogoi held with girl at Srinagar hotel

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An army officer behind last year’s human shield case was handed over to the police after he was held by people with a girl at a hotel in Srinagar on Wednesday. Major Leetul Gogoi, who had tied a civilian Farooq Ahmad Dar of Chill-Brass village in Budgam district on the day of Srinagar Parliamentary elections in April last year was caught today by people with a girl from a hotel. A senior police officer told Kashmir Post that the major had booked a room at “The Grand Mamta” hotel in…

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Accused police driver who killed teenage boy got bail, Victim’s family pleads for murder charge

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A local court on Tuesday granted interim bail to a police driver who is accused of crushing to death a teenage boy under armoured vehicle at Safa Kadal area of Downtown here on 5 May. After hearing prosecution and defense counsel, the court had reserved the order on bail application on 19 May. On Tuesday, the court of the chief judicial magistrate announced granting of interim bail to the accused up to 28 May. Police had earlier told the court of chief judicial magistrate Srinagar that it had identified the…

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Major guilty of giving grenades to Delhi-bound jawan: Army

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The Army has taken disciplinary action against one of its officers who gave hand grenades to a soldier who was detained at Srinagar International Airport before he could board a New Delhi-bound flight in April last year. The disciplinary action against the accused officer has been initiated after a Court of Inquiry found the Major guilty of giving two live grenades to the soldier to carry them to New Delhi. “We have taken disciplinary action in the case against the officer who had given the solider the grenades to carry,”…

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Rumor monger Sushil Pandit booked for spreading fake news about militant attack on CRPF

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The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday registered a case against Sushil Pandit for tweeting false information about a militant attack on the CRPF and killing of five personnel at Pampore. The move came days after the Central government announced a unilateral conditional ceasefire in Kashmir during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, suspending all operations against militants. Pandit, owner of Hive Communications India Pvt. Ltd, is often seen in many TV channels during panel discussions. “The Kashmir Police booked the twitter user after he posted a rumor from his…

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New York Times urges United States to help resolve Kashmir imbroglio

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Terming India’s ceasefire in Kashmir for the month of Ramadhan an “olive branch” for starting dialogue process anew, New York Times in its editorial has suggested tripartite dialogue involving India, Pakistan and Kashmiris, while urging the US to channelize its efforts to end Kashmir imbroglio. “Yet the obvious and growing danger of the Kashmir conflict demands trying again and again, however elusive the goal. It may be too much to expect either side to surrender territorial claims on Kashmir, but India’s Ramadan olive branch, however inauspicious, could become the start…

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