KATHUA — Jammu and Kashmir Police in Kathua arrested two alleged inter-state drug suppliers and recovered 80 grams of heroin-like substance as part of an investigation into a case registered at Billawar Police Station, officials said on Thursday. The arrests were made during the investigation of FIR No. 89/2026 registered under Sections 8/21/22/29 of the […]
KATHUA — Jammu and Kashmir Police in Kathua arrested two alleged drug peddlers and recovered around 14 grams of heroin-like narcotics in two separate incidents in Lakhanpur and Ghatti areas, officials said on Thursday. In the first incident, a police team from Lakhanpur Police Station, during patrolling near the National Highway, apprehended Hardeep Singh, a […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the National Investigation Agency whether Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, who is in jail in a terror funding case, could be released on bail with stringent conditions. A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan asked the NIA counsel to […]
JAMMU — The Jammu unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau has re-arrested a drug peddler who had escaped from its custody three days ago, an official said on Thursday. The accused was arrested in Punjab’s Jalandhar in a coordinated operation by the agency, J-K Police and Punjab Police, an NCB spokesperson said. Aqib Bashir, a […]
JAMMU — A Class 7 student was allegedly raped by a cab driver and his friend in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Wednesday. Both accused were arrested and booked under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including those pertaining to gangrape, kidnapping and wrongful confinement, as well as under the […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday trapped and arrested a Treasury Office clerk in Kalakote, Rajouri, for allegedly demanding and accepting a ₹20,000 bribe from a retired government employee, officials said. The accused was identified as Khadam Hussain, posted as a clerk at the Treasury Office, Kalakote. According to the […]
JAMMU — A shopkeeper was seriously injured after he was allegedly assaulted with lathis by four people in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. All four accused have been arrested. Three of them were arrested from Jalandhar in Punjab on Wednesday. On Sunday, the accused barged into Sachin Puri’s shop in […]
BHADERWAH — In a major crackdown on illegal felling and timber smuggling, the Forest Protection Force on Wednesday seized hundreds of illegally extracted deodar and green kail sleepers in Bhaderwah forest division of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, a senior official said. Divisional Forest Officer, Bhaderwah, Devinder Kumar said six labourers found extracting timber were […]
JAMMU — Rail traffic on the Jammu-Kathua link was disrupted for several hours on Wednesday after a wagon of a goods train derailed at Chhan Arorian railway station in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The derailment occurred around 9:30 am. The vital route connects Jammu and Kashmir with other parts of the […]
SRINAGAR — Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati was sworn-in as the chief justice of the high court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Wednesday. Justice Bhati was administered the oath of office by Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh V K Saxena here. Saxena is currently holding additional charge as LG of Jammu and Kashmir as incumbent […]