Month: June 2021

A departmental inquiry has been ordered against a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) of Jammu Kashmir Police for conducting investigation in a “very perfunctory and unprofessional manner” in a case related to ten alleged underground workers of militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen in Kishtwar district. According to Indian Express, framing charges against seven of the ten accused men and discharging the three others, third additional sessions judge, Jammu, Sunit Gupta, who also hears NIA cases, “strongly recommended” initiation of a departmental inquiry against DySP Sunny Singh , the investigating officer of the case. He should be asked as to “why and under what circumstances, he had not collected the real evidence” against accused and “left out important aspects” of the case, Justice...

The Train services from Banihal to Baramulla have been cancelled in the Kashmir valley till the 16th of June. As per an official communication the Inspector General of Police Kashmir Range has demanded the cancellation of train services till 16th June 2021. The train services were suspended In the wake of rising covid 19 cases in the valley.

At least 40 youth have joined Militancy in the current year, while as 50 more have gone Missing in the Kashmir valley, the print reported. “This year there have been around 40 who have joined Militant groups, basically the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Al-Badr. However, around 50 are still missing,” a senior-level source told ThePrint. “All the traditional militant groups, which were operating from Pakistan with the direct support of the ISI, like the LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba), Jaish-e-Mohammad have now got frontal organizations with peculiar names to showcase that Pakistan has no role in the Militancy activities in Kashmir,” the report said quoting another official source, adding “The Resistance Front (TRF), which is a front for LeT, has attracted the majority of the new members.” The repo...

Restore pre 5 August 2019 position of J&K,  If BJP wants to correct its wrongs CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami said that the latest decision to reserve jobs for residents of the Ladakh region is another half-hearted attempt of the BJP government as it didn’t bother to consult two functional hill development councils in the region. CPI(M) stands on J&K Reorganisation Act-2019, through which the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded and divided into two Union Territories – J&K and Ladakh - is clear that it was unconstitutional, arbitrary, and against the interests of the people of the region. The party has already challenged it in the Supreme Court. Article 35-A, which was scrapped by the BJP government along with the Article 370 on 5 August 2019 unco...

As the speculations regarding further bifurcation of Jammu Kashmir are rife, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a conglomerate of political parties in Jammu Kashmir, has once again come alive as it has decided to hold a crucial meeting at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s Gupkar residence late afternoon today. Sources privy to the development told that a meeting of PAGD has been scheduled today at conglomerate’s Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief, Mehbooba Mufti’s Gupkar residence. They said that the meeting will be held today at 05:00 PM, saying that the agenda has not been decided yet “but certain important things with regard to the speculations about J&K would be discussed threadbare.” All the signatories of the Gupkar declaration have been i...