Month: April 2023

Weather department on Wednesday forecast isolated very light rain and thunderstorm over Jammu division and fairly widespread light rain and thunderstorm over Kashmir valley in next 24 hours. A meteorological department official here told GNS that isolated to scattered light rain and thunderstorm was expected on Thursday and mainly dry weather thereafter for several days in JK. Regarding the rainfall in last 24 hours till 0830 hours today, he said, Srinagar received 2.9mm, Qazigund 8.8mm, Pahalgam 10.8mm, Kupwara 2.8mm, Kokernag 4.2mm, Gulmarg 7.8mm, Jammu 0.0mm, Baniha 5.4mm and Batote 0.6mm. Meanwhile, the MeT official said that Srinagar recorded a low of 2.7°C against 6.9°C on the previous night and it was 3.7°C below normal for the summer capital. Qazigund, he said, recorded...

The Jammu Kashmir Police arrested the owner of a house allegedly used for running a prostitution racket from a residential area of Srinagar city was arrested on Tuesday. They said proceedings have been started for formal attachment/sealing of house as per section 18 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act which intends to minimize prostitution activities near public places. “Owner of the house used for immoral activities namely: Altaf Hussain Afaki, R/o chanapora arrested under section 3 of Immoral trafficking prevention act 1956(ITPA),” the Srinagar police said on Twitter. The Jammu Kashmir Police had on Monday said it busted a prostitution racket running from the rented accommodation at Bagh-e-Mehtab area of Srinagar. Earlier Altaf Hussain had said that he had started the ten...

Altaf Hussain Afaqi, owner of the now infamous house at Bagh-e-Mehtab in Srinagar outskirts where police arrested 8 persons including two kingpins, 4 sex workers, and two customers during a raid today refuted allegations against him as totally baseless sans any logic. Taking to the news agency Kashmir News Trust, Altaf said, "First of all it’s wrongly propagated that I own three houses while I only own a house at Lal Nagar Channapora and there is no property in Charar-e-Sharif that belongs to me.” Regarding the Baghi Mehtab house he said the property actually is owned by his spouse. Elaborating further Altaf Hussain said that he had two parties as tenants at the Baghi Mehtab house. He said the upper storey of Bagh-e-Mehtab house was taken on rent by people associated with Life ...

Congress today charged the ruling party with pushing Jammu Kashmir youth to liquor addiction by opening more liquor shops as it has no jobs for youth and that it is suppressing the voice of the opposition. Carrying forward the ongoing Satyagrah at different districts, JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma and Ex MP TS Bajwa along with Ex minister Bhushan Dogra and leaders of DCC Rajouri charged the BJP and LG administration of snatching business prospects and failing to give jobs instead pushing the youth to addiction of liquor by the wholesale opening of new shops year after year. In a statement, the spokesperson said that while in opposition BJP used to oppose the opening of more liquor shops blaming the government for pushing the youth of Jammu to addiction. “More than half ...

Police have booked the house owner, whose house was being used as a ‘prostitution centre’ in the Bagh-e-Mehtab locality of Srinagar outskirts. Locals have demanded strict action against the house owner for renting his vacant house to tainted tenants without any police verification. As reported earlier, police arrested 8 persons, including 4 female sex workers from Srinagar, 2 kingpins from Pulwama, and two customers also from Srinagar during a raid in the Bagh-e-Mehtab area. Police said that the rented house was being used as a prostitution centre. The house owner has been identified as Altaf Hussain Afaqi son of late Asadullah Afaqi, a resident of Zalosa village of Charar-e-Sharif Budgam, who presently lives at Chanapora. As per the police, the whole racket was run from Afa...