KL Report
SRINAGAR
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday launched a massive hunt and intensified the searches across Srinagar after a former National Conference minister’s car, ‘gifted to him by chief minister Omar Abdullah’, was stolen, officials said on Tuesday.
The official said police have sounded an alert and communicated a message to all the district and tehsil headquarters across the Kashmir division following the theft of a vehicle that belonged to Khursheed Ahmad Mir, a former minister in NC regime, who later contested unsuccessfully in 2002 on a PDP ticket. The car a ‘Maruti Esteem’ (white colour bearing registration number JK04-0111 was parked outside his residence at J-51 Govt Quarters Jawahar Nagar Srinagar when it was stolen.
Mir hails from frontier village of Harri in Kupwara and presently resides in Jawahar Nagar, officials said.
“From today morning police had established more check points in every entry and exit points of the city,” sources said.
While confirming the theft, a senior police official said: We have registered a case under FIR no. 46/2014 under section 379 RPC in this regard and we have launched searches to nab the car lifters.
Meanwhile, sources said that vehicle was gifted to Mir by Omar Abdullah in 2000.
The Esteem car Model 1996, chassis no. 0185947 and engine no. 0181312 was transferred in the name of Khursheed on 26-11-2002, a senior officer at Assistant Regional Transport office Budgam said.
