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Crime

Offering a detailed reportage of the diverse crimes taking place in the society, this section is a window to detailed narratives about some serious crimes that were committed in Jammu and Kashmir since 2009 and made news.

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The Kunan Questions

The remote Kupwara village is a milestone in Kashmir’s tragedy. For the last more than two decades, the entire anger is directed towards the...

Pest’s Potency Proved

Those defending their guru by insisting that Gulzar Bhat separated from his wife because he was physically unfit must be shocked by what meticulous...

Facing The Music

Gulzar Bhat left carpet weaving and opted for carving out a niche of his own from the surging ‘faith business’. In a society preoccupied...

The Scholarship story

A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...

The Lowest Conviction Story

While the issue of security for women hogged headlines in mainland India, Kashmir’s is a different story. Being a conservative society, very few cases...

Rape: A LARGER REALITY

R S GULL Ever since the victim of a beastly gangrape in Delhi aroused concerns of the middle class, almost every body is trying to...
Tufail Mattoo

Untraced Killers

The Jammu and Kashmir police has made a bizarre disclosure in J&K High Court that its Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate the...

Benefit of doubt

Most of the accused including the pimp and her alleged clients were exonerated by a designated CBI court in Chandigarh to which the sensational...

A Dirty Picture

Doordarshan Srinagar was once known for amusing the audiences with its classy content and the variety of programs it produced. But it has lost...
Altaf Kaloo: The Erstwhile Lawmaker

A ‘Star’ Fall

When the former lawmaker, Altaf Kuloo, was caught in Nigeen last fortnight, it triggered a chain reaction: he was placed under suspension by his...

Tabinda Gani: An Award, A Case

Nearly five years after Tabinda Gani was abducted, gang-raped and murdered in a sleepy Handwara village in north Kashmir, the J&K government has set...

The Laila Suspense

MUFTI ISLAH investigates how a murderer was tracked and lured into a trap and the warped sequence of events that led to the massacre...

The Chargesheet

The Pathribal faked encounter is a case of conspiracies and lose ends revealed by the investigators in the army’s and initial police narratives. It...
Avtar Singh asli

Killer’s last decade

Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
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A Chilling ‘Voice’

The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...