Month: November 2022

The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the verdict of a Jammu Kashmir court in the Kathua rape case and ordered that A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice JB Pardiwala said, "The main accused in the Kathua case should be tried as an adult and not a juvenile." The bench noted that the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kathua, has heard the judgment pronounced in the matter in view of the juvenile age of the accused. The apex court noted that the Jammu Kashmir government has claimed that the High Court had wrongly confirmed the order of the judicial magistrate's court declaring the main accused as a minor. The bench said that in the absence of evidence regarding the age of the accused, the medical opinion should have been considered for determining the age. ...

In a tragic accident, at least eight persons lost their lives in road accident in Marwah area of Kishtwar on Wednesday. An official told news wire Kashmir News Apex- (KNA) that in a tragic accident in Rachal area of Marwah in Kishtwar district 8 people including 4 women died after a tata Sumo in which they were travelling met with an accident as it fell into a Renie Nallah. He said that all eight on board died on spot while their identification is being ascertained. (KNA)

The Chamber of Commerce and Industries Kashmir (CCIK) President along with Office Bearers held a press conference regrading the PDD order of recent power curtailment schedule. The CCIK requested the honorable LG and Chief Engineer PDD to roll back the press order of power curtailment in winters immediately. President CCIK said that the tourism, education, and health sectors will be the most negatively impacted by the power curtailment schedule. CCIK said that traders, industrialists and hoteliers are unable to run their businesses on gen sets as business is very slow at present and the fuel costs have reached sky high. "Also to promote winter tourism electricity plays a key role. CCIK stated that since the government has scheduled exams for March, the education sector will be the mos...

A family from Budgam has alleged that the staff in JVC hospital exchanged their recently born male child with a new-born dead girl. Speaking to the media, the family from Patlibagh Budgam said that the boy was born twelve days ago, as was communicated to us, by the hospital staff. On Wednesday, however, they gave us the dead body of a girl, they said. "The medical certificates show that the child was a male," he said. The father of the deceased child said that on the day the child was born, the doctors informed him that a boy was born to the couple and also told him that his wife was not keeping well. "As soon as the delivery happened on 8th November, the staff congratulated me and asked me for Chai (bribe). I gave them all the six hundred rupees I had. They did not allow me to me...

While expressing serious concern over the non-payment of salaries, and wages of Jammu Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) employees, CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Wednesday asked the authorities to release the pending salaries of these employees forthwith. Over 2000 employees working in JKPCC are without their salaries for the last so many months. These employees and their families are going through tough times due to the delay in payment of salaries. They are subjected to mental torture for no fault of theirs. Tarigami urged the administration to immediately release salary and wages of these employees at the earliest.

A 27-year-old Special Police Officer (SPO) was killed after being run over by a speeding truck at Narwal bypass here early Wednesday, police said. The truck driver also suffered injuries when he lost control of his vehicle and hit another parked truck, Station House Officer (SHO) of Bagh-e-Bahu Police Station Sikander Singh Chouhan said. SPO Rajat Choudhary, a resident of Bishnah, was part of a police party engaged in checking vehicles near forest check post on the bypass when he was hit by a speeding truck bearing Tamil Nadu registration number, resulting in critical injuries to him. His colleagues rushed him to Government Medical College (GMC) hospital where he succumbed to injuries, the officer said. The truck driver is being treated at a hospital under custody, Chouhan said...