Cop caught red-handed taking bribe in Jammu

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Cop caught red-handed taking bribe in Jammu

Jammu: A police cop was caught red-handed here by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Jammu, while accepting Rs 4000 as bribe within the premises of a police post, yesterday.

As per the report, Mohammad Sultan Mirza, a Selection Grade Constable, working as Munshi in Police Post Chinore, who is originally from Reasi, on March 1, 2023 demanded Rs 8000 as bribe to ensure reconciliation between two families, who were in a dispute.

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“After paying Rs 4000 as first instalment of the bribe, one of the families filed a written complaint against Mirza with the ACB Jammu,” sources said, adding that today the ACB team reached police post Chinore and caught the cop red-handed while demanding and accepting remaining Rs 4000 as bribe.

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The accused has been arrested and booked under the relevant sections of the law while further investigations are on.

In touch with KPs to strengthen their security further: IG CRPF

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In touch with KPs to strengthen their security further: IG CRPF

Inspector General of CRPF (operations) Kashmir M S Bhatia Friday said that the force is in constant touch with the Kashmiri Pandits across the Valley in a bid to strengthen their security further.

“We are in constant touch with the KPs wherever they are in the Valley. All efforts are being made to strengthen their security and provide them all possible security cover,” Bhatia told reporters at Bijbehara, Anantnag, as reported by a local news agency.

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He said that security of all the minority pickets in South Kashmir and elsewhere is being reviewed on daily basis to ensure safe and secure environment to KPs. To a query about the number of active terrorists in Kashmir, he said that the number keeps fluctuating and it won’t be possible to comment on the actual number. “Recently, two dreaded terrorists were killed in South Kashmir and operations against terrorists are going on in a well-coordinated manner,” he said.

Poor seeking basic treatment at govt hospital in Jammu, now have to wait for months

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Poor seeking basic treatment at govt hospital in Jammu, now have to wait for months

Jammu: The MRI department of Government Medical College and Hospital in Bakshi Nagar, Jammu gets 300 patients for an MRI scan daily and out of which only 30-40 patients daily used to get the facility, who will now have to wait for months because reportedly from past 15 days the MRI machine is lying dysfunctional at the hospital.

The report said that the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility at the GMC Bakshi Nagar is lying dysfunctional from 15 days from which the destitute patients are suffering as they have been told the attending doctors to come for the tests after 3-4 months.

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Patients who are visiting the GMC are being given appointments for months for basic MRI scans as the machine is not working properly, the report said.

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Patients are now being referred to the private clinics in Jammu by the doctors at the GMC, where MRI scans cost between Rupees 5000-20,000, which is difficult for the poor commoners to pay .There is a nexus of govt doctors and private clinics here in Jammu, which is going on here, the report said.

NIA court issues warrants against 13 J&K terrorists

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NIA court issues warrants against 13 J&K terrorists

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court Thursday issued non-bailable warrants against 13 active militants, who hail from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district but have been operating from across the border.

Kishtwar SSP Khalil Poswal said its Chief Investigation Officer approached the Special NIA Court for the issuance of non-bailable warrants against the accused persons for their active involvement in terror activities aimed at creating unrest in the erstwhile Doda district and other parts of Jammu and Kashmir.

The warrants have been issued in an NIA case registered under Sections 120-B and 121 A of Indian Penal Code, 12, 18 and 19 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

“They mobilised sleeper cells and pushed terrorists into J&K in connivance with secessionist and separatist leaders for waging war against the Government of India with the nefarious design of seceding Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India,” said Poswal. Further investigation in the case is underway, he added.

As per the Express report, the non-bailable warrants were issued against Shahnawaz Kanth alias Munna alias Umer of Hullar, Nayeem Ahmed alias Amir alias Gazi of Jamia Masjid, Mohd Iqbal alia Bilal of Kichloo Market, Shahnawaz alias Nayeem of Chirool Padyarna, Javid Hussain Giri alias Muzamil of Kundali Pochal, Bashir Ahmed Mughal of Jugna Keshwan, Gazi-ul-Din of Jugna Keshwan, Sattar Din alias Rajab alias Saifullah of Jugna Keshwan, Imtiyaz Ahmed alias Dawood of Banderna, Shabir Ahmed of Kither Bonjwah, Mohd Rafig Keen of Patnazi Bonjwah, Muzaffer Ahmed of Semna Colony Zewar and Azad Hussain of Affani Padder. All of them, at present, reside in PoK and Pakistan, Poswal added.

Indian Democracy Under Attack, Politicians Under Surveillance: Rahul At Cambridge Univ Lecture

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March 3, 2023

Indian democracy is under threat, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said during a lecture at Cambridge University, claiming that several politicians, including himself, are under surveillance.

Gandhi made the comments during his lecture on “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century”, which was shared on Twitter by Congress leader Sam Pitroda, ex-adviser to former prime minister Manmohan Singh.

Raking up the Pegasus snooping issue, Gandhi alleged that the Israeli spyware was installed on the phones of a large number of politicians, including him.

“Indian democracy is under pressure and under attack. The institutional framework which is required for a democracy… Parliament, free press, the judiciary, just the idea of mobilisation–these are all getting constrained. We are facing an attack on the basic structure of democracy,” he said.

Gandhi noted that in the Constitution, India is described as a Union of States and that Union requires negotiation and conversation.

“It is that negotiation that is under attack and threat…there is also attack on minorities and press.

Courageous 72-Year-Old Woman catches thief in Jammu

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Courageous 72-Year-Old Woman catches thief in Jammu

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Jammu: In a brave act, a Courageous 72-year-old Woman showed valour and caught a thief, who was running away after stealing goods from the woman’s shop in Bakshi Nagar in Jammu, yesterday.

As per the report, the incident happened when thieves disguising as customers arrived at the shop of the victim woman and on pretext of buying something snatched victim’s phone and ran away, but the woman also ran after them and caught the thief.

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Speaking to the media, Mrs Gulshan, the courageous woman, said: “I was standing in my shop attending the customers then a boy came and asked for ice-cream, I told him we’re out of stock”.

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“But then he asked for soda and as soon as I went to fetch it for him, he suddenly leapt towards my cash drawer and stole my phone and ran away”, she added excitedly.

“I had my eyes on him and I screamed at him as what he’s doing and ran after him and grabbed him from behind, then Azhar came and firmly held his scooty”, she further said.

“Nothing like that I have experienced earlier. He could have attacked me and could have snatched my chain cause he was carrying a punch, a blade and drugs with him”, she alleged.

“Two boys came and asked her for cold drinks but as she went inside the shop to give them, the thief took her phone and ran away on the scooty”, said Mr Azhar Hussain, the victim’s neighbour.

“I came outside after hearing her scream and grabbed the burglars scooty and slapped him, then more people came for our aid and caught the burglar”, he added.

“There were two burglars and were escaping but I caught one of them. I also chased his partner but he fled away”, Mrs Gulshan said.

“I’m from Uttar Pradesh”, Mr Azhar told media.

“We suspected that this a stolen scooty because it had no number plates on both sides and he painted the vehicle black “, Mr Nitish Sharma, a local said.

“I found vehicle’s registration certificate which was registered in a woman’s name and called her, she felt glad and we told her to take her scooty from Bakshi Nagar police station”, he added.

Rahul Gandhi says he ‘met terrorists’ during Bharat Jodo Yatra : Kashmir

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Speaking at the esteemed Cambridge University, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed in the lecture that he came face to face with militants during the Kashmir leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Gandhi said the government forces in Kashmir had asked him not to walk in the region as there was a fear of attacks. However, the Congress MP chose to continue with the yatra.

Rahul Gandhi added, “I talked to my people and told them that I wanted to continue the walk. We continued walking when an unknown man approached me. He told me he wanted to talk to me.”

As per the report, Gandhi said that the man asked him if the Congress leaders had really come to the Union Territory to listen to the woes of the people.

Moments later, the man pointed towards some nearby people and revealed they were all militants, Gandhi added.

“I thought I was in trouble because in that situation terrorists would kill me. But they did not do anything because this is the power of listening,” Rahul Gandhi said.

Gandhi arrived in the UK on Tuesday to kick off his week-long tour with an address at the University of Cambridge. He also held discussions with Indian diaspora groups there.

During his lecture, Rahul Gandhi focussed at the prestigious University of Cambridge on the “art of listening” and called for new thinking to promote a democratic environment globally, as opposed to a coercive one.

Out-Of-The-Box Thinking, Long-Term Vision Can Take Tourism To New Heights: PM Modi

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March 3, 2023

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said “out-of-the-box thinking” and “long-term vision” can take tourism to new heights, and added that villages in far-flung areas of India have now come up on the map of tourism.

Addressing a post-budget webinar on ‘Developing Tourism in Mission Mode’, he also pitched for devolving apps which will have information in multiple languages of India, besides multi-lingual signage at tourist sites.

The prime minister elaborated on how this year’s Union Budget would help the tourism sector and create many economic opportunities for the youth.

“This webinar is for transformation of the tourism sector, and when all stakeholders come together, we reach desired results and within the time frame,” he said.

“An out-of-the-box thinking and long-term vision can take tourism to new heights,” Modi said.

He also emphasised that rejuvenation of religious sites has boosted tourism, and seven crore people visited the Kashi Vishwanath Dham last year.

“Some people think that tourism is a fancy word, for high-income groups, but in India, it has a long socio-cultural context,” Modi said, citing various yatras undertaken by the masses over the centuries.

The webinar is part of a series of 12 post-budget webinars being organised by the government to seek ideas and suggestions for effective implementation of the initiatives announced in the Union Budget.

Road Accidents in J&K: 12,429 people killed in These years, says traffic police

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Road Accidents in J&K: 12,429 people killed in These years, says traffic police

Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed as many as 76,942 road accidents between 2010 and 2022 in which 12,429 people were killed, while 1,04,983 individuals were injured, the latest data released by the traffic police revealed yesterday.

The data of last 12 years shows that on an average, more than 12000 people died and 8748 were injured due to accidents of different nature across the Union Territory. The figures suggest that in every 24 hours, 34 people got killed and 291were injured across J-K.

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The figures, however, shows some downward trend during the last two years (2020-2021) of COVID pandemic, when deaths due to road accidents were between 700-800. The reasons are obvious as lockdown prevailed during this period.

The data further revealed that out of total casualties, 9963 were fatal in nature while rest were non-fatal.

As per data compiled by the traffic department, in 2010, a total of 1073 persons were killed while 8655 people were injured in 6120 accidents.

In 2011, 1121 persons were killed and 9944 injured in a total 6644 accidents. In 2012, the death toll rose to 1165, while 9755 persons were injured in 6709 road accidents.

In 2013, 990 persons died, around 8681 persons were injured in 6469 accidents.

In 2014, 992 persons were injured and 8043 were injured in 5861 accidents.

In 2015, 917 people were injured and 8142 persons were injured in 5836 accidents.

In 2016, 958 were killed and 7677 were injured in 5501 accidents. In 2017, 926 were killed and the injured persons were 7419 in 5624 accidents. In 2018, 984 people were injured and 7845 injured in 5978 accidents. In 2019, a total of 996 persons were killed, 7532 were injured in 5796 accidents.

In 2020 and 2021, the two years of COVID pandemic, 728 and 774 people were killed respectively. As many as 5894 persons were injured in 4860 accidents during 2020 while 6972 were injured 5452 during 2021.

The accident graph again shows an upward trend and the number of accidents shoot-up to 805 in 2022. Moreover, 8372 people were injured in 6092accidnets during this period. Many analysts from the Kashmir valley blame the pathetic condition of the roads and the Srinagar-Jammu Highway for the increase in the number of accidents on the highway.

Though the government has initiated various projects for the safety and security of the commuters, the slow pace of the work has been questioned from various quarters of the society.

Recently, during the parliament session Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and highways in Lok Sabha said that most of the accidents were caused due to human negligence.

“As per the yearly analysis of road accident data, based on the first information report (FIR) data received from various states and Union territories (UTs), road accident deaths occur due to multiple causes such as over speeding, use of mobile phone, drunken driving or consumption of alcohol and drug, driving on the wrong side or lane indiscipline, jumping a red light, non-use of safety devices such as helmets and seatbelts,” the minister said.

J&K: NIA attaches property of Hizb commander

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J&K: NIA attaches property of Hizb commander

National Investigation Agency on Friday attached the property of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Basit Reshi in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

NIA action comes as Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared Basit Reshi, “presently in Pakistan”, as designated “Terrorist” under the UAPA, a stringent act legislated to control militant activities.

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According to the Home Ministry, Basit Ahmad Reshi is a member of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and was involved in “subversive activities and coordinating target killings” in Jammu and Kashmir.

The NIA claims that Reshi planned and executed an attack on a police guard post at Tujar Sherief on August 18, 2015, in which police personnel and a civilian were killed.

Born on 4 March 1996, Reshi is resident of Yemberzalwari Shiva Dangerpora Sopore area of Baramulla district and as per NIA he is presently in Pakistan.

The NIA action comes a day after it attached property of Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar alias ‘Latram’ in Nowhatta area of Srinagar.