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NEW DELHI MARCH 03 :
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party’s win in four of five seats in Delhi civic body bypolls is a message to the BJP for 2022 elections, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said this morning as he congratulated the party workers. The counting of votes, which began this morning, was completed a little before 11 AM.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s party won Kalyanpuri, Rohini, Trilokpuri, Shalimar Bagh, while the Congress secured victory in Chauhan Bangar.
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SRINAGAR, MARCH 3 :
The rampant and arbitrary use of draconian laws like UAPA and PSA in Jammu and Kashmir is atrocious, undemocratic and violates civil liberties of the people, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said on Wednesday.
“People, especially youth, are being indiscriminately booked under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) which has sent shock waves among the people across the region,” he said in a statement issued to GNS. “There are also reports that people booked under UAPA are being shifted to outside valley jails which is a huge worry.”
He said that in bone chilling cold, they were kept in jails in Kashmir and now as harsh summer is about to begin outside the Valley, they are being shifted to jails in other states.
“Also hundreds of people, who are already languishing in jails outside the valley are facing tremendous hardships as their relatives are unable to meet them. They don’t have enough resources to visit their kin in jails outside Kashmir.”
On one side the administration claims normalcy while on the other arrest spree continues unabated and those already in jails are reportedly being shifted to outside jails, he said.
“In some cases, even after courts quashed the PSA, detainees remain in prison as the police book them under the UAPA.”
The right to personal liberty provided in the Constitution has been trampled upon, he said.
“The UAPA is a monstrous law which makes getting bail extremely difficult. The misuse of the UAPA and PSA needs immediate review and the cases of those who have been detained under these draconian laws need to be examined. Arrests without any solid legal grounds do not augur well for the state. It has been done before as well in the state, but it has never yielded anything.”
On the other hand, he said, it just exacerbates the anger and gives rise to further uncertainty.
“We have always maintained that dissent should always have a place in a democratic society. Curbing the dissent and those holding a contradictory viewpoint is not democratic at all.” (GNS)
RAJOURI, MARCH 03 :
An army sepoy was on Wednesday morning found dead in a camp of Army’s Ace of Spades division near Chawa area of Rajouri district.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the sepoy, posted in an army camp near Chawa area on the outskirts of Rajouri town, was found lying in a pool of blood with bullet marks on his body.
“The body has been taken to GMC Associated Hospital Rajouri for post mortem examination and other medico-legal formalities,” he said.
The official said that investigation into the matter was going on to find out the cause of death as the deceased is having bullet marks on his body—(KNO)
People hailed the efforts of BRO and demanded widening and safety walls
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Uri, March 03: After massive landslide triggered by recent rains and snow blocked Mohra- Baaz strategically important road link at Chillana due which sever village also got cut off in frontier sector Uri Baramulla however, Beacon authorities acted swiftly to ensure smooth passage to travellers and traffic.
Officiating Commander (OC) 53 RCC said that early morning commuters faced huge rock slide triggered by heavy rains and snow at KM 7,Choolan village at Mohra Baaz road on the intervening night of 1st and 2nd March. The slide cut the strategically important road which resulted in cutting across eight villages for the main town Uri town in Baramulla district.
“On receipt of information,the maintenance team and the heavy road clearance and earth cutting machinery was immediately rushed on the site on 2nd and 3rd March which carried out clearance of the strategically important road link. The side was cleared and road upto Baaz LoC was connected,” the offical confirmed.
” Heavy rock slide was removed and from road using mechanical equipment and manual resources to ensure smooth traffic movement. The connectivity was established by the evening of 2nd March though the widening of road is still in progress. The people hailed the efforts of the BRO authorities,” the official said.People of the area and adjacent villages have hailed the Beacon of BRO and demanded widening of the road at warfooting besides safety walls.” We are highly grateful to BRO for restoring the traffic movement by clearing the heavy rock slide on Mohra Baaz road due to which around eight villages were cut off. We demand swift widening and safety walls to ensure smooth movement of traffic and travellers,”a local resident Nowshad Ahmad said.
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SRINAGAR, MARCH 03 :
Burglars decamped with goods and cash worth lakhs of rupees as they struck four shops in Mandi area of Poonch district overnight, reports and officials said on Wednesday.
They said that thieves carried burglary in two cloths shops, Hardware and a tailoring shop in Sadder Bazaar area of the Mandi market.
The shopkeepers demanded immediate arrest of the burglars as also installation of CCTV cameras in the busy market amid “growing incidents of thefts” in the area. Station House Officer Mandi Bashir Kohali told GNS that the burglars would soon be behind the bars. (GNS)
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SRINAGAR, MARCH 03 :
An army officer of lieutenant rank committed suicide by shooting himself dead at an army depot in Khonmoh area in outskirts of Srinagar, official sources said on Wednesday.
They said that the officer identified as Sudeep Baghat Singh ended life by shooting himself with his service rifle.
On hearing the gunshots, some soldiers rushed to the spot and found him in pool of blood, they said. Later, he was shifted to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, they added. The cause of him taking such an extreme step was not known immediately.
A police official told GNS that necessary proceedings into the incident have been launched. (GNS)
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SRINAGAR MARCH 02 :
A Govt School teacher died of a sudden cardiac arrest on Tuesday evening in Trehgam area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara
Reports said that a teacher identified as Zahoor Ahmad Dar son of late Mohammad Ashraf Dar resident of Bunpora Trehgam, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Tuesday evening at his home in Trehgam.
He was immediately rushed to SDH Kupwara where doctors on duty declared him dead on arrival.
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URI (BARAMULLA), MARCH 2:
In the interest of general public, Assistant Regional Transport Office (ARTO) Baramulla in collaboration with Saaya, a non-governmental organization (NGO) on Tuesday conducted trail test drives for learning license and driving license at Lagama area of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
The trail is first of its kind being held in far-off and mountainous areas like Uri. At least 55 persons participated in the trial.
The locals have hailed the efforts of the ARTO Baramulla Mubashir Jan. ARTO also briefed the locals about the traffic awareness.
“Uri is the best location I have come across while conducting the trails as it is nestled in mountains and has hilly terrains,” Jan said.
Naveed Bukhtiyar, General Secretary Saaya thanked ARTO for taking up such an initiative. “I request him to organize more such trails which will truly bring relief to people of the town. It is the service at the doorstep,” he said.
“However, the rotten staff or agents will never allow him to work in this public friendly manner,” he added.
Bukhtiyar has also requested Hon’ble LG to empower such officers with special powers so that he can choose his staff for such public causes and award him for his honesty and dedication to the public.
Abrar Bhat, local social activist said, “We request ARTO to open an office in Uri permanently for such services or they should visit Uri once in a week.”
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JAMMU MARCH 02 :
Today (02.03.2021), NIA registered a case RC-01/2021/NIA/JMU relating to conspiracy by frontal running militant organization Lashkar-e-Mustafa working at the behest of proscribed militant organization Jaish-e-Mohammed to carry out militant activities in Jammu area with the aimof threatening the sovereignty, integrity and security of India.
During searches conducted, one hand grenade, 03 magazines and 28 rounds with other incriminating material were recovered from his possession.
Hidayat-ullah Malik had done reconnaissance of many security installations in Jammu and Delhi in 2018 and 2019 for carrying out militant attacks. He has been associated with other militant groups in past and has furthered subversive and terror activities in Kashmir valley. The militant group had also committed a daylight Bank robbery in which to Sixty (60) Lakh Rupees were looted from JK Bank, Main Branch Shopian in November 2020.
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SRINAGAR, MARCH 2 :
Former Chief Minister and PDP President, Mehbooba Mufti, has approached J&K High Court for issuance of passport allegedly denied to her for want for police verification.
In her plea before the court, Mehbooba Mufti said that the passport issued to her was valid till 31st May 2019.
She applied for issuance of a passport before regional Passport Officer on 11 December last year. “The Passport as per the instruction manual is expected to be dispatched within approximately 30 days,” she says.
“After the receipt of the Application, complete in all respects, the (RPO) sought police verification from that of (Addl. Director General of Police, CID) and (Sr. Superintendent of Police, District Srinagar).”
After an efflux of more than a month, she said that on noticing that the Passport has not been dispatchedand the same ispending forphysical police verification, Mehbooba said that she submitted a representation Passport Officer, stating that despite efflux of more than a month, the report sought by him hasnotbeensubmitted, notwithstanding the guidelines issued by the Union of India through Secretary to Government, Ministry of External Affairs which mandate that the police verification is required to be completed within a period of 21 days .
“Accordingly, it was requested that the police verification report be forwarded to that of (RPO) at an earliest so that there is no delay in issuance of the Passport,” she said, adding, “That despite representation, it appears from the record that the (Addl. Director General of Police, CID) for reasons unknown, till date has not forwarded the police verification report.”
Subsequently, she has sought directions to the concerned to issue Passport in her favour expeditiously.
She has also sought directions declaring the action of officials concerned in not allowing her to travel abroad as illegal and unconstitutional violating her fundamental right to travel abroad as guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution or India.
“Any such order or direction which this Hon’ble court may consider appropriate in the given facts and circumstances of the case,” she added.(GNS)
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