PULWAMA — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said they apprehended an alleged drug peddler and recovered approximately 12.5 grams of heroin-like substance and ₹14,300 in cash during naka checking at Newa Chowk in Pulwama district. A police party from Police Post Newa intercepted a cab bearing registration number PB01B3431 during checking. The suspected contraband […]
JAMMU — Probe into the rape and subsequent death of a 15-year-old girl in Kishtwar district has been handed over to the Crime Branch, officials said on Saturday. The teenager had been allegedly raped by her school teacher over several months. She died on August 20 during a pregnancy termination procedure. A Special Investigation Team […]
JAMMU — A nurse at Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar was arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old tribal girl by a school teacher last week, taking the total number of people held in the case to six, an official said on Saturday. Sonika, a nurse at Kishtwar district hospital, was apprehended on […]
ANANTNAG (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a case Anantnag district after a man allegedly cheated another of ₹8.25 lakh on the pretext of securing him a government job and facilitating permission for installation of tents at Pahalgam during the Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. According to a police statement, Police Post Khanabal received […]
SRINAGAR — J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday ordered the transfer of 11 senior IPS officers and three officers belonging to the Jammu and Kashmir Police Service. According to the order issued by the home department, the police chiefs of both Kashmir and Jammu zones have been replaced. Sujith Kumar has been named the […]
SRINAGAR — Three days after escaping from the high-security Central Jail here, two inmates facing trial in separate POCSO cases were successfully apprehended in Rajasthan by Srinagar police on Wednesday, an official said. Farman Khan of Rajasthan’s Sadanpora area and Mukhtar Ahmed Gujar of Sanglan Chittergul in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district escaped from Central Jail […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army and CRPF apprehended six alleged terrorist associates in two separate operations in Shopian district on Tuesday, recovering hand grenades, AK-47 magazines, ammunition and incriminating posters, police said. According to a police statement, in the first operation at Heerpora, a motorcycle bearing registration number JK18B-6130 was intercepted during […]
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 — 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 — 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, […]