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| It is justice v/s do's and don'ts of police | | | |
15 years ago, court directed police to give plaintiff possession of land kept at their superdnama at Chhani Himmat, but cops say property is unidentified till date
BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: It is a case of the "domineering" police allegedly assuming the role of accused and "defying" court orders issued a decade and a half back.
The court of Ist class judicial magistrate, Jammu, ordered police on April 3, 1995, to deliver possession of a piece of land to Mulkh Raj at Chhani Himmat, but till date they had not helped the plaintiff to get his land back from the land mafia.
The dilly-dallying police tactics is obviously the manifestation of their remiss and own do's and don'ts. Though wretched due to the long-drawn legal battle, and indifferent police, the despondent petitioner remained committed to take his struggle to the bitter end and moved the high court through advocate Anil Sethi.
His case got a new life when high court judge, Justice JP Singh directed Trikuta Nagar police station SHO to appear in person before the court in the first week of ... | |
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| Girls all the way in Matric results | | 143 students share 20 positions | | |
MISHU GUPTA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: A record 143 students shared 20 positions in secondary class examination results declared by the Board of School Education (BOSE). Again, girls dominated merit list. Out of 143, Girls bagged 85 positions while 58 went to the boys. Pass percentage in the exams stood at 56.52% Shubham Gupta from Christ school Nowshera emerged as the topper among 45175 students, who appeared for the examination taking 489 marks out of a total of 500 (97.80) per cent). With just one mark shot, Vibhor Sharma of Shiksha Niketan HSS Jeevan Nagar And Saima Sadiq of Christ School Poonch followed him with second top slot securing 488 marks having 97.60 percent.. At 4... | |
| | | | 158 perished in Mangalore Air Crash | | | |
AGENCIES
MANGALORE, May 22: 158 persons were killed when a plane of Air India's low budget carrier from Dubai with 166 on board overshot the runway at the airport here, went down a ravine and burst into flames in the worst air disaster in the country in a decade.
Eight persons miraculously survived the crash after the two-and-a-half-year-old Boeing 737-800 with an experienced Serbian pilot in command missed the touchdown area at the 8,000-feet 'table top' runway (air strip on a hilly terrain) at Bajpe airport.
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, who flew to the crash site, told reporters here that of the 166 persons on board four persons escaped with minor injuries while three sustai... | |
| | | | PM shelves UPA anniversary bash | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, May 22: Shockwaves ran through Delhi in the wake of tragic loss of lives in the crash of an Air India plane at Manglore airport early this morning.
Most official engagements were given up by Prime Minister and his colleagues. And among them was a function that was to be held at 7, Race Course Road residence of Manmohan Singh here to mark the completion of first year in office by the Government led by him in his present or second term as Prime Minister.
One-hundred-and-fifty-eight people out of 166 on board have perished in the air crash while there were just eight survivors and the most of them suffered varying levels of injuries.
Thus, Prime Minister Man... | |
| | | | Custodial killings no more an issue with Jammu politicians | | | |
ET REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: Custodial deaths- a favorite slogan of politicians of J&K which they use as weapon to take on government at any point of time, it appears is no more same with Jammu based leaders. Despite hue and cry by locals over the alleged custodial death of youth in Bakshi Nagar vicinity, not a single political leader of any political party has bothered to visit bereaved family to enquire about truth.
It has been seen in the past that in order to express concern and solidarity with victmised familes, politicians lose no time on such issues as and when they erupt in any part of the state.In fact almost all parties have been seen hijacking every such issues apparently f... | |
| | | | MR Sharma may take over as next Principal DCH Jammu | | | |
ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: Eminent Professor of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials, MR Sharma is likely to be the next Principal of Dental College & Hospital, Jammu.
Sharma, who had attained superannuation on July 31, 2009, may again be entrusted with job in view of non-availability of competent and eligible person for the job.
Presently, Rajinder Singh, Principal Government Medical College & Hospital, Jammu has been given the additional charge of Principal, Dental College & Hospital (DCH) Jammu.
MR Sharma had already served as Principal of DCH Jammu for four years and keeping in view his competence, he may be given the opportunity to serve the institution as ne... | |
| | | | Shrine land stir activists participated in 2008 elections: Geelani | | Delhi-Islamabad pact on J&K would be never acceptable to Kashmiris | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 22: Separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani today declined to take upon himself responsibility of the failure of Amarnath land allotment agitation in 2008. He put the blame on the people of Kashmir valley and complained that those who were in the frontline of the agitation also participated in the elections with the alibi of seeking better roads, electricity and water.
While addressing a seminar on implications of current census operation, ban on inter-district recruitment with reservation of 8 percent of the vacancies for Scheduled Caste candidates in all districts and the Kashmir problem, Geelani asserted that his call to resume normal business acti... | |
| | | | PM's Kashmir visit: Lop-sided approach to create more problems | | | |
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 22: Six, The people of Jammu province, who occupy more than 26,000 sq kilo meter land area of the state and constitutes almost half of the state's population, have all along vehemently opposed the politics of separatism and autonomy. On the other hand, they have been consistently struggling for their full merger with the national mainstream since 1947 and had in the process suffered immense political and economic losses not only at the hands of the Kashmiri rulers but also at the hands of New Delhi.
It would not be out of place to mention here that the watchword and battle-cry of the people of Jammu in 1947 was the state's full integration into Indi... | |
| | | | Ex-CRPF cop's son held for LeT links | | | | Early Times Report
RAJOURI, May 22: The son of ex-CRPF cop Mohammad Khaliq was today arrested by security forces from his residence at Thera Topa in Poonch for his alleged links with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
Khaliq was already in police custody for allegedly helping LeT militants active in and around Thera Topa. He was arrested on May 19 last when acting on intelligence inputs that he had given shelter to three LeT militants, police and army had raided his residence.
11 detonators, 300 gm RDX and 10 safety fuses were recovered by the raiding party from his house.
Police sources said Khaliq's interrogation today led security forces to the arrest of his son Mohammad Zubair.
Sources said on... | |
| | | | Accused may be on June 26 | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: Owing to lawyers' strike, the court of Principal Sessions Judge, Jammu adjourned the much publicized Amandeep murder case. The case shall come up for hearing on June 26.
When the case came up for hearing today all the accused including Jatinder Singh alias Raja, Royal Singh, then SSP Jammu Manohar Singh, then SHO Gandhi Nagar Sultan Mirza, then Sub-Inspector Satnam Singh, Sarwar Singh Hussain Bukhari former Ballastic Expert FSL, Constable Raj Singh, Choudhary Nagar Singh, Rakesh Singh were produced whereas Choudhary Jagar Singh who was granted interim bail by the High Court was also present.
The court was all set to hear arguments from the state and the defens... | |
| | | | 25 kg RDX recovered from in Kishtwar | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 22: 25 kilograms of deadly-RDX and other explosive items were recovered by security forces from a hideout of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants in Dachchan area of Kishtwar today.
Acting on a tip-off, police and 11 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) troops launched an operation in Lopara forests of Dachchan in the morning. Police sources said while making searches, the troops came across a HM hideout.
Its search led them to the recovery of 25 kg RDX, two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), three .12 bore guns, 13 grenades, one AK rifle with 239 rounds and one RPG.
The hideout was later smashed by the troops, the sources added.
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| | | | Self style PRO, servant of minister arrested | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: Police today arrested two impersonators who duped a person and managed to take away Rs 50 thousand from him on the pretext of providing job to his son.
The arrested duo posed as Public Relations Officer (PRO) and domestic help of Minister for Industries and Commerce Surjit Singh Slathia.
Police arrested them after tracing their mobile numbers. Their interrogation was in progress to dig out more skeletons.
According to police sources, one Swatantar Singh Jamwal son of Thakur Parsidh Singh of Suchani lodged a complaint with Nowabad police station alleging therein that a person claiming to be PRO to the Minister for Industries and Commerce had fraudulently took Rs... | |
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