Srinagar: Chief Judicial Magistrate rejected the bail of a rape accused through virtual mode on Friday.

Pertinently, father of a minor girl (17) had registered a complaint that a 60 year old man identified as Nazir Khuru of Pamposh Colony, Noorbagh area of Srinagar has tarnished the chastity of her daughter.

Accordingly Police Station Safa Kadal as per KNT, arrested the accused and registered a case vide FIR number 13/2020 under section 176 against him.

During the course of investigation it was found that victim is 6 months pregnant.

The accused is currently languishing in Jail while he had applied for bail through his Counsel which the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Gowhar Majid Dalal rejected outrightly after hearing the arguments and counter arguments. (KNT)

Jammu: BJP senior leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta on Friday lambasted on NC President Farooq Abdullah over his remarks that “people of J&K do not feel Indian at this moment and would rather be ruled by China” and said it exposes his “mental frustration”.

According to Kashmir News Service, BJP leader Gupta said that it was NC President’s “mental frustration” on which he spoke against the integrity and sovereignty of the country.
“Dr Farooq has got mentally frustrated. His is responsible for the death and destruction in Jammu and Kashmir. He think people of J&K is with him which is his misconception”, Gupta said.

Terming Article 370 a “fistula”, Gupta said that Dr Farooq Abdullah like people and those in Hurriyat misled people of Jammu and Kashmir for decades over it however it was BJP who took the bold decision of scrapping it once for all.

“Article 370 was a fistula (nasoor) and BJP abrogated it once for all. Dr Farooq like people have no courage to speak over it in the Parliament against the national sovereignty and integrity”, BJP leader said adding he was given enough time to speak in the house but he again resorted to his dual politics which he is playing with the people of Jammu and Kashmir since decades and raised issues other than abrogation of Article 370 and 35(A).

Hitting hard to NC President, former speaker of J&K Assembly said Dr Farooq is fond of dual speak. “He is talking one think in Srinagar, one in Jammu and another in New Delhi and thereby cheating people for his political interests”, Gupta added.

He said when a resident of J&K can purchase land or property in any part of the country why people from other parts will not be allowed to purchase the same in J&K.

BJP leader said that earlier militancy in Kashmir was on its peak, people were participating in thousands in militants funeral procession, stone pelting incidents were on rise however after scrapping of Article 370 there is a complete peace in valley.

“Militancy has almost been wiped out, no one is participating in last rites of militants, stone pelting has declined and it happened only when Article 370 was abolished”, Kavinder Gupta has said.

He said in times to come foreign investors are going to approach Jammu and Kashmir for huge investment which will throw the gates of employees for local youth. (KNS)

IGP Says He Ignored Police Requests Not To Reside At Hawal

Srinagar: A day after unknown gunmen shot dead advocate Babar Qadri at residence in Hawal area of this summer capital, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday constituted a special investigation team to “immediately identify the militants and their group affiliation for their arrest or encounter.”

“Babar Qadri was sitting at home. Two persons claiming to be clients and wanting advice on some accidental matter visited him at his home at 6:20.

They were having masks and carrying files in the hands,” IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar told reporters at presser here. “The militants fired four bullets on his head. He was taken to hospital but died on the way. Before fleeing, the militants fire few rounds in air and are seen in a footage of CCTV camera installed in the lane.”

The top police officer of the Valley said he along with other police officials himself visited scene of crime and held a meeting of SSP, SPs and SHOs.

“We have constituted a special investigation team headed by SP Hazratbal and its members include SDPO, DySP Cargo, an SHO and a legal expert. The SIT has been directed to solve the case immediately. Identity militants and their outfit and we will try to arrest them. If not arrest, we will try to carry out their encounter.”

Responding to question whether or not the young lawyer was a protected person, the IGP said: “No. He was not a protected person but in 2012 his vehicle was fired upon. SHO and DySP personally told him not to reside in Hawal. Today I talked to SHO Lal Bazar and SHO Zadibal they said they had requested him from last one week not to reside in Hawal being a very congested area. He (Babar) said he won’t leave his Home”.

Kumar said any person whether protected or not should contact nearest SHO in case of receiving any threat to person. (GNS)

DNA samples of 3 Rajouri youth killed in Shopian Encounter matched with families, further investigation going on: Vijay Kumar IG Kashmir Police (KNT)

Potential links with militants are being investigated

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided multiple locations associated with trade across the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday.

An official said the residences where raids were conducted included that of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat from Srinagar’s Wazirbagh, Bashir Ahmad Lone from Srinagar’s Hokersar, Arif Ahmad Misger and Fazal ul Haq from Srinagar’s Chattabal.

“These persons have been associated with the cross-LoC trade,” an official said.

Sources said the traders were questioned and also trade-related documents were sought during these raids.

The NIA is investigating links between the traders and militancy in J&K. Around 30 traders and separatists are under the NIA scanner, including Tanveer Bardhan, who served as president of a trade union.

The cross-LoC trade was suspended in 2019 after the Ministry of Home Affairs disclosed the link between traders and the separatists in Kashmir.

With inputs from The Hindu

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Clear message given to Chinese that pushing back Indian soldiers physically will not work: Govt. Official

Shots have been fired in the air on multiple occasions on the north and south banks of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh recently, and the Chinese have been given a clear message that pushing back Indian soldiers physically will not work any more, a senior government official said on Thursday.

On its way: A convoy carrying supplies to Ladakh on the Manali-Leh highway last week. | Photo Credit: PTI

Stating that once a melee happens, like the Galwan clash on June 15, opening fire was not possible, the official pointed out, “Now, we said, if you come close we will fire. Distance is dependent on the conditions like day or night, location and so on… If they are about to be overrun or in self-defence, troops are authorised to fire.”

At the sixth round of Corps Commander talks early this week, India and China had agreed not to send any more troops to the frontline. “It is a good start. We have to wait and watch till there is concrete action on the ground, we will not lower our guard on the ground. Our stand is you moved first, so you move back first. That will be a good confidence-building measure (CBM),” the official said.

The sixth round of senior-level military-level talks also saw a joint statement being issued as well as the participation of an External Affairs Ministry official who deals with China, the official stated. Earlier, the Chinese side had tried to project that India did not have a “unified” stance on the continuing boundary stand-offs.

At the talks since the developments on the south bank since August 29, the Chinese want to resolve the latest incidents first, but India favoured a package resolution of the entire eastern Ladakh situation. “When we say status quo, what we mean is status quo before May,” the official stated.

Chinese deaths

The official revealed that the Chinese had conveyed through diplomatic channels that they had suffered five deaths, including their commanding officer, in the June 15 Galwan Valley clash, which left 20 Indian Army soldiers dead.

Asked why the Chinese had acted in the way they did, the official felt there was “no one overarching reason” but many reasons, including turning Jammu and Kashmir into a Union Territory in August 2019 and also to divert attention from China’s COVID-19 crisis.

Pointing out that the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in other sectors remains stable, the official said that local commanders on both sides were in contact and even they (the Chinese) had said: “Let not what’s happening in eastern Ladakh happen here”.

Interestingly, in the eastern sector, Indian and Chinese troops patrol contentious areas by weekly rotation, a formula that could be brought into play in eastern Ladakh as well.

The official asserted that there was no intelligence failure in detecting the Chinese movements in early May as they made ingress into the Indian side of the LAC. “Whoever moves first has the initiative and the first mover advantage,” the official, said stating they had been monitoring the Chinese all along.

Currently, troops are facing each other at Depsang, the north and south banks of Pangong Tso, and Patrolling Points 17A, Rezang La and Rechin La.

On possible collusion between China and Pakistan against India in the ongoing stand-off, the official said there was no major troop movement on the Line of Control (LoC), and only regular battalion movement was taking place.

“Nothing unusual on that front. We don’t see any build on the other side. But terror activities continue. We are quite strong on the ground, so we eliminate the threat on the LoC,” the official said.

On the global support to India in the ongoing stand-off and the transgressions by China and engagement with Quad countries, the official said: “At the end of the day, you have to fight your own battles”.

On the situation in the Depsang plains, where Chinese troops continue to block Indian patrols to the Patrolling Points 10-13, the official said there were one or two Chinese vehicles near the Y-junction, which kept going back and forth. Beyond the Y-junction, Indian patrols had to go on foot, which were being blocked by Chinese vehicles, the official stated, adding that patrol parties followed protocols and returned. “We have not given up our claims. It has only been temporarily halted due to the circumstances,” the official said.

With inputs from The Hindu

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Srinagar: Police on Thursday suspended two police personnel in connection with the “alleged custodial killing of a youth” in sopore last week.

Official sources told GNS that the policemen who have been suspended were “escorting him at the time of incident.” The sources however declined to comment further, saying investigation is still underway.

Mohd Ahsaan (KAS), Additional District Magistrate Baramulla, has been appointed by the Deputy Commissioner Baramulla to conduct a magisterial enquiry to “ascertain the causes and circumstances leading to the death of the youth Irfan Ahmad Dar son of Mohammad Akbar Dar of Sidiq Colony, Sopore” earlier this week.

The enquiry officer has been asked to submit his report within a period of 20 days.
“There was a huge outcry in Sopore and even it is reported in the media that the deceased was picked up by Sopore police on (September 15) and was therefore in their custody.

Allegations are leveled against Sopore Police for custodial killing of the subject,” said the deputy commission of the north Kashmir district in the order as he appointed ADC as the inquiry officer. While police claimed Dar fled from the custody and “his body was recovered later”, the family has already rejected the claim, maintaining that the 23-year-old youth, a shopkeeper by profession, was killed in custody. (GNS)

Srinagar: A CRPF officer was killed in an attack by militants in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said.

Militants shot at and injured the Assistant Sub Inspector of the CRPF of 117 battalion at Kaisermulla in Budgam district, a police official said.

He said the militants also decamped with the service weapon, an AK assault rifle, of ASI N C Badoley.

Badoley succumbed to injuries at the Army’s 92 base hospital at Badami Bagh here, the official said.

He said the area has been cordoned off and a manhunt launched for the militants.

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