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...
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...
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...
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...
Crime and Policing
The volatile political conditions of Kashmir have earned the state police not so pleasant an image, but efficient counterinsurgency and surveillance methods evolved over...
In crosshairs
No police chief has finished his innings in J&K in such a controversy as Kuldeep Khuda, one of the longest serving DGPs of the...
Mystery man
A man who is often spotted at elite gatherings in Mumbai is a Kashmiri who has had quite an obscure background. Sameer Yasir investigates...
Unpunishable By Law
It is a case where established murderers-men in uniform-of five innocent civilians of Islamabad area has remained un-punishable because of AFSPA, a law that...
STABILITY OF CORRUPTION
Last week the government forced 13 corrupt officials into premature retirement. But a look at the recent history of pervasive and systemic corruption at...
Fields of Addiction
A string of villages near Bijbehara rely primarily on fields of illegal crops for sustaining themselves. SHAMS IRFAN walks through one of these villages,...
SHROUDED IN SILENCE
Domestic violence in Kashmir seems to be on an increase. Apart from the social and cultural contexts in which it happens, political turmoil also...
