Month: December 2021

The Jammu and Kashmir Home department on Tuesday said that it has received the inquiry report regarding Hyderpora encounter and the same has been sent to the concerned Judicial magistrate. In a statement, the department said that district magistrate has been advised to send the report to judicial magistrate under section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, as mandated under law. The statement reads that an inquiry to ascertain the facts and circumstances and the cause of death regarding firing incident at Hyderpora, during the intervening November 15 and 16, 2021, was ordered to be conducted by the ADM Srinagar. “The inquiry report has been received by the Government and the District Magistrate has been advised to send the report to the Judicial Magistrate having jurisdic...

Jammu and Kashmir police Tuesday said that apart from a foreign militant, a local youth from Jammu had been staying with the foreigner since long while as both were staying in the room of Dr Mudasir Gul. Police said that the local youth Amir Magray was a militant and had lied about the presence of foreign militant in the building and that the building owner was made a human shield by foreign militant who got killed in a cross-fire. Addressing a press conference at police control room (PCR), DIG Central Kashmir Sujit Kumar Singh, while giving a detailed presentation about the investigations carried out into the Hydeprora encounter said that the CCTV footage and other evidences show that building owner Altaf was used as a human shield by the foreign militant Bilal Bhai, who was living in ...

The Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Sheeri, J&K, received the National Quality Assurance Standard (NQAS) certification, making it the first public hospital in Kashmir Division to do so. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) recently awarded the PHC Sheeri the NQAS certification for maintaining high quality and performance criteria. The residents thanked the government for the certificate, and the Block Medical Officer promised to "keep up the obtained achievement" in the future. The health Centre received an overall grade of 83.6% and met all of the NQAS requirements. The National Health Mission of J&K aided in the certification procedure. "We began by qualifying at the district level. We had submitted an application for the national level. External assessors...

On Tuesday, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) released a statement and appealed to the international community to take cognisance of "the systemic demographic change being foisted upon the Muslim majority Jammu Kashmir by settling outsiders here including through a new policy of sale of land and natural resources to them." The APHC said that the Government of India wants "to change the demographic character of the Muslim majority J&K and disempower its residents through such diktats and measures in order to scuttle the final resolution of the long-standing international political dispute of Kashmir in accordance with the will and aspirations of its people as promised by the international community, based on principles of justice and international law." Since August 2019,...

Residents of Kongaipora Hushroo village of Chadoora in Budgam district on Tuesday held a protest against R&B division for failing to complete the constriction of several bridges despite passing over of several years. The protesting locals while talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS) said that the foundation stones of these bridge was laid in 2012 and around 85% work has been completed, however, the concerned department has failed to complete these bridges. They said that on questioning the contractor about completion of bridge he said the department was not providing technical sanction, while the department is saying that the contractor has to complete its construction after that technical sanction will be provided. The locals alleged that there is some controversy between depa...

The parents of an eight-year-old nomad girl, who was brutally raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu, are anguished that while their appeal for enhancement of sentence against six people remains unheard, two convicts were released on bail in the case described by a court as a “devilish and monstrous crime," PTI reported. Mohammed Yusuf, who had adopted the eight-year-old girl, and Mohammed Akthar, her biological father, said they had heard that two culprits—former sub-inspector Anand Dutta and head constable Tilak Raj—had been released on bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which suspended the rest of their sentences pending an appeal. “I am surprised that two accused have been left on bail. Our appeal for enhancement of sentence is still pending while their appeal has...