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 — The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has set aside a contempt of court notice against Shopian’s deputy commissioner, observing that the judicial magistrate exceeded jurisdictional boundaries under the Code of Criminal Procedure. On July 10, Shopian’s judicial magistrate ordered Deputy Commissioner Shopian Shishir Gupta to appear at the court and […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday arrested two alleged drug peddlers in Shopian and Pulwama districts of South Kashmir and recovered charas and codeine bottles from their possession. In Shopian, police said a drug peddler was arrested during naka checking at Manihal Crossing, where a team from Police Station Imamsahib intercepted a […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday registered two FIRs in connection with incidents of firecracker bursting during marriage ceremonies in alleged violation of prohibitory orders issued by the District Magistrate, Shopian. According to a police statement, the action was taken despite repeated public advisories and the enforcement of the District Magistrate’s orders […]
SRINAGAR — A woman was washed away while hundreds of people were evacuated as multiple cloudbursts struck the Valley on Monday, triggering flash floods in several districts, officials said. Naseema Begum (52) was washed away in a flash flood caused by a cloudburst as she was trying to manoeuvre across a culvert over a swelled […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has sanctioned Rs 41 lakh to the 2016 unrest pellet victim Insha Mushtaq to make her LPG distributorship operational, minister Satish Sharma said on Thursday. Sharma, the Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, said justice was delayed but not denied. “Justice delayed but not denied. Insha […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday attached an immovable property worth ₹18,76,665 belonging to an alleged drug peddler in Shopian under its ongoing crackdown against narcotics-related activities. According to a police statement, the attached property comprises a residential house belonging to Nazir Ahmad Lone, son of Rishi Lone, a resident of Kathohallan. […]
SRINAGAR — At least 11 security forces personnel, including an officer, were injured in separate road accidents in Shopian and Anantnag districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. A bunker vehicle carrying CRPF and police personnel skidded off the main road at Wachi in Shopian district late on Monday night, the officials said. […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Government has approved two major heritage conservation projects worth ₹16.36 crore for the revival and restoration of prominent religious sites in Ramban and Shopian. An official statement said the government has sanctioned ₹10.31 crore for the revival and restoration of the Sarvadhar Chaumanda Mata Mandir in Ramban. The […]
SRINAGAR — A magisterial probe has been ordered into the circumstances of the encounter in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, earlier this month, in which one terrorist was killed, officials said. The magisterial probe was ordered on Thursday by the Deputy Commissioner of Shopian, directing the Additional Deputy Commissioner to investigate the cause and circumstances leading […]