SRINAGAR — The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has reopened investigation into the 1998 Wandhama massacre where 23 Kashmiri Pandits were brutally murdered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, officials said on Tuesday. The reopening of the Wandhama massacre case comes as the SIA has re-launched investigation into several cases involving the murder of Kashmiri Pandits […]
JAMMU — A special NIA court in Jammu has directed jail authorities to ensure that separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah is not unnecessarily handcuffed while being escorted from the Central Jail in Kot Bhalwal here to a hospital or court following his plea that handcuffing could cause him pain, and further endanger his health Shah […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police in a joint operation with the Army and CRPF, arrested two alleged terrorist associates and recovered a pistol, 12 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade from their possession in the Yarwan forest area of CB Nath in Rajpora tehsil of Pulwama district, police said on Tuesday. According […]
SRINAGAR — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Apni Party on Monday held separate protests here against electricity tariff hike in Jammu and Kashmir, which will be effective from September 1. PDP leaders and workers assembled at the party office near General Post Office and raised slogans against the 6.83 per cent hike in […]
SRINAGAR — Two inmates booked in separate cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act escaped from the Central Jail here on Sunday after scaling the front-side wall of the high-security prison, officials said. The escaped inmates have been identified as Farman Khan, a resident of Sadanpora, Rajasthan, and Mukhtar Ahmed Gujar, […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said women are not responsible for the violence and discrimination that they face, asserting that parents and the society as a whole have a responsibility to ensure that girls grow up in a safe and equitable environment. Abdullah said this while addressing the annual-day […]
CHANDIGARH/JAMMU — Holding that excessive force cannot be used against citizens, the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has upheld a “severe displeasure” censure awarded to a former Rashtriya Rifles sector commander over the December 2023 custodial deaths of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Dismissing the plea of Brigadier Padmasambhava Acharya, the tribunal has […]
SRINAGAR — The NIA on Saturday conducted searches at 10 locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a cross-border terror conspiracy case involving Pakistan-based handlers and a network of local Over Ground Workers (OGWs) allegedly providing logistical and other support to infiltrated terrorists. The searches, conducted across Srinagar, Kupwara, Anantnag, Pulwama and Budgam, were […]
JAMMU — A special NIA court has rejected the bail plea of Insha Jan alias Insha Tariq, an accused in the 2019 Pulwama suicide attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel, observing that sufficient material existed on record to presume that the accusations against her were prima facie true. In his 15-page order delivered on August […]
SRINAGAR — The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has flagged “legal shortcoming” and “insensitivity” on the part of a family court here for deploying police and issuing a search warrant to recover a five-year-old girl from her father. Hearing a petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution by Shadab Hussain Mir, […]