Month: September 2020

The death of a 23-year old youth a day after his arrest by police in Sopore area of Baramulla district is another glaring example of how the rule of law is being violated with impunity in Kashmir, the Communist party of India Marxist (CPIM) has said. In a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat, the CPIM has said that the police version about the killing of the youth is a concocted story which nobody trusts in Kashmir. The situation in Kashmir has reached a stage where even demanding a probe into such incidents looks like a joke as in the past such incidents the probes yielded no results. None of the so-called investigations so-far has ever brought the culprits to book. A probe was ordered into the killing of three labourers from Rajouri in Shopian on July 17, who were later pass...

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on September 17 said that the final results of the DNA samples collected from three family members from Rajouri District of Jammu division who claimed the 3 youth killed on July 18, Amshipora Shopian encounter were their kin, will be revealed in just few days. He further said, “There is no delay in results as the process takes time, it is just a matter of few days” while replying to a query that it has been a month since DNA samples were collected. Police team from Srinagar travelled to Rajouri District in order to collect the DNA samples of six members from three families who claimed that the slain were their sons. After the Shopian gunfight on 18 July, the pictures of slain youth went viral on social media after ...

Police has arrested one person, involved in attacking government employee in Tehsil Bishah of District Aamba.  On Wednesday  a group of miscreants  entered in tehsil office Bishah and started beating government employee Jan Mohammed openly.  People from different parts of life have expressed their anguish about the incident.  Firdous Taak, A former MLC & PDP leader wrote on his social media account  "Bhagwadharies attempt to lynch a govt employee Jan Mohd in Bishnah on flimsy grounds. The employee of tehsil office was punched, kicked in full public view by the people well protected by the administration in anticipation of proposed Hindu Rashtra. Today its Jan Mohd tomorrow it will surely be Ram Kumar.  Irony is that Jammu Kashmir Police is yet to take any consider...

Government forces on Thursday busted a hideout in Awanpora area of Awantipora in which incriminating material was recovered. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that during cordon and search operation by joint team of forces including 42 RR, 130 bn CRPF and Awanpora police, a suspicious point was spotted. He said that immediately BDS squad was called in and after digging at the suspected spot a 250 litres Syntax was found. When syntax was opened 416 neogel, 901 super power explosives besides other incriminating material was recovered, he said, adding that case has been registered and further investigation is going on—(KNO)