Day: September 21, 2022

A court in Jammu on Wednesday issued a production warrant against Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik, directing the Tihar jail authorities to produce him physically before it on the next date of hearing in Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), advocate Monika Kohli, CBI counsel in the case, said  the TADA court has issued a production warrant against Malik and directed the Tihar jail authorities to produce him before it on the next date of the hearing “The next date of hearing is scheduled on October 20,” she said. Malik had requested the court to allow him to appear physically to cross-examine witnesses in the case. The CBI counsel said lawyers of other accused in the case cross-examined Rubaiya Sayeed tod...

The mysterious disappearance of a woman sparked a protest in Narbal area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district today. According to reports a 40-year old woman identified as Aisha Akhtar wife of Showkat Ahmed Bhat of Narbal had gone to SMHS Hospital Srinagar to inquire the health of a patient on yesterday morning and since then she is untraceable. “We tried to call her but her cell-phone is powered off,” one of the family members told news agency Kashmir News Trust. The family members and locals today blocked the road demanding to trace the ‘missing’ woman. Police rushed to the spot and informed the protesters that a case has already been registered and efforts are on to trace the missing woman. (KNT)

In yet another incident of man-animal conflict, a bear critically injured a man in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Official sources said that a wild bear who had entered into Panar village of Bandipora mauled a man identified as Nazir Ahmad Bania son of Babu Bania, a resident of the same hamlet. The victim was somehow rescued by locals and shifted to District Hospital Banipora with critical injuries. A couple of days ago a leopard had mauled a little girl to death in North Kashmir’s Uri. (KNT)