Category: Union Territory

Police say Dawood was a ‘wanted’ stone-pelter

Srinagar: The family members of an old Srinagar city youth Saturday while accusing police of harassment said that one of their members was arrested at Srinagar Airport while on way to Delhi and then was implicated in a false case.

    “Dawood Mushtaq a resident of Nowhatta Srinagar according to his family members was detained at Srinagar Airport for the reasons better known to police. “Despite being innocent, he was taken to Cargo for interrogation wherefrom he was shifted to police station Khanyar. Now we were informed that he has been booked under Public Safety Act and has been shifted to Kot Balwal Jail,” the family members told news agency CNS.

    “Neither is he a stone-pelter nor any militant. Dawood’s only fault is that he is the relative of a militant commander. We fail to understand why he was arrested and why police is not giving any reason for his arrest,” they said.

   They alleged that family members are not allowed to meet him and they are anxious about his safety. When contacted a police official said that the arrested youth is a ‘known’ stone-pelter. “Dawood was not only a stone-pelter but he was the front-runner who incited youth for stone-pelting in the old Srinagar city,” he said. (CNS)

Srinagar: News about the death of South Kashmir’s religious leader ‘Sarjan Barkati is fake and just a rumor. He is safe in the jail.
“These are rumours. He is all well,” said Additional SP Shopian. (PTK)

Govt decides to order testing of edible oils over cancer link

Srinagar: With the reports that edible oils consumed in Jammu and Kashmir, contain cancer links, the government has decided to order state-wide testing of edible oils
One of the senior officials of the State Drug and Food Control Organization told KNS, that raids will be held in all major outlets of edible oils in the state with the aim to identify and punish distributers and manufacturers producing adulterated cooking oil refined from low quality and discarded rapeseeds.
“I want to inform you that concrete steps have already been taken in this regard. We have taken open samples for lab testing from top brands. We will send the samples to referral laboratories in Kolkata and Ghaziabad for precise testing. If any of the brands are found adulterated with harmful and substandard oil, their outlets and industrial units will be immediately sealed,” said the official.
Sources said that most of the top oil brands available in the market are under scrutiny.
It is to mention here that in the recent past ,edible oils in Jammu and Kashmir were found containing recycled oils and oils extracted from discarded rapeseeds, which contain highly toxic carcinogenic substance including ‘dropsin’ and ‘aflatoxin.’
Sources said that apart from edible oils markets are flooded with the milk and milk products containing chemicals such as detergents—the trend that experts say is creating a health catastrophe.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in one of its reports, said detergents are a cause of food poisoning and gastro-intestinal complications. Other common additives to milk impair the functioning of various organs of the body, cause heart problems and cancer, it said.
It is to mention here that Jammu and Kashmir High Court had directed the Government to provide full particulars of outside companies supplying food items to Jammu and Kashmir.
“Commissioner Food Safety shall provide full information and particulars of those food manufacturers, suppliers, persons, companies who originate from outside the state and supply food items to Jammu and Kashmir,” a division bench of Justices Muzaffar Hussain Attar had said in its order.
The court had expressed displeasure over non implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act. “Money power has taken control of everything now. Few people have made empire out of food adulteration, they want quick buck and for it they can go (stoop) to any extent,” the court had observed. (KNS)

Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan has summoned BSNL General Manager Saleem Beg and Deputy General Manager Mufti Musharib Gul directing them to explain within a week’s time why the subscribers have been put to inconvenience.
Khan has directed the officials to file response within week’s time in his office.
Taking cognizance of a senior accredited journalist’s complaint, addressed to union Minister of Telecommunications Ravi Shankar Prasad with copies to DGP J&K and Divisional Commissioner Kashmir.
The complaint is about “unnecessary delay” in Operationalisation of Broadband services to subscriber.
The respondents have been directed to produce records of all Broadband activations of the year 2016 on November 21, this year.
The subscriber has complained that the BSNL Kashmir officers have taken undue benefit of the suspension of internet on mobile phones in the last four months of the Burhan turmoil and fleeced the subscribers.
It has been alleged that Broadband service is activated on the phones of only those subscribers who grease the palms of the BSNL officers.
The complainant has pointed out that the Broadband service was not activated on his landline phone even 16 days after the security key was allotted to him and his modem was configured.
He has complained that being in nexus with two private service providers, the BSNL officers force the applicants to approach the private operators whose business has multiplied manifold in the last four months.
When the applicants approach the BSNL officers for redressal of their grievances, they refuse to meet them and also do not respond to phone calls or text messages. Their juniors say that we are not working under the State government. (KNS)

Srinagar: Hurriyat (M) Saturday strongly condemned the ruling regime and its police force for their inhuman and vengeful attitude towards the youth and children arrested arbitrarily during the current agitation and lodged in various jails across the valley.
“A Legal team of the amalgam headed by Advocate Ajaz Dar including Aamir Masoodi, Showkat Dar and Mudasir Dar who have been visiting various jails across the valley said that government has deliberately put prisoners belonging to one district in jails in another district in order to harass them and their families and inconvenience travel and meeting them as much as possible. During their visit to sub jail Baramulla where many inmates were on a hunger strike after they were attacked and ruthless beating by the police inside the prison some days back, for demanding medical help for a seriously ill prisoner,” said spokesperson in a statement to Kashmir Today.
“The prisoners accused that in their rage the police personnel burnt and destroyed their belonging clothes bedding shoes etc and were punishing them further by refusing to provide any heating arrangement against the biting cold in prison. The team said that inmates in all jails they visited accused the authorities of persecuting them in every way possible and refusing to provide basic facilities like heating, blankets and adequate bedding to them,” they added.
He said that while Kashmiris know that that the ruling regime treats them as an enemy for demanding their political right and “illegally and arbitrarily detains them in jails and detention centres but as per human and legal norms it is mandatory upon the government to provide these political prisoners basic human facilities and not mistreat abuse and punish them in prisons.”
He said that however much the ruling regime and their masters might try to inflict pain and suffering upon the people of Kashmir, let them be clear that people of Kashmir are determined and adamant on achieving their right to decide their destiny and be their own masters.”
The spokesperson denounced the ruling regime for the continuous house arrest of its Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ,Hurriyat leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza and Hurriyat (M) Media Adviser, Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam who was hospitalised as his health has deteriorated considerably due to his continued house arrest and the failure of authorities in providing him medical treatment, which the conglomerate said was nothing but political vendetta.
“For sabotaging the programmes of unified resistance leaders, the ruling class was using brutal and oppressive tactics and had unleashed a reign of terror on peaceful protestors in Sopore, Zaingeer, Gulshan Chowk, Papachan and Aloosa Bandipora, which was the worst example of state terrorism,” he added. 

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said the “emerging scenario” in the state can be addressed best by following the vision of late CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, asserting that her party’s agenda has always been dialogue and discourse and not “warmongering”. 

“My party’s agenda has always been dialogue and discourse and not warmongering. The emerging scenario in Jammu & Kashmir and the subcontinent can be addressed best by executing and following the vision of late Mufti sahib,” she said.

Addressing a meeting of party’s district and zonal presidents of Jammu province here yesterday,she said the situation of past few months in the state and the consequent acrimonious relations between India and Pakistan could be resolved by implementing the political philosophy of ex-J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.