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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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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.

Shopain to CBI

Investigators are busy preparing the Shopian rape and murder case to be handed over to CBI after green signal from the High Court. Haroon...

Rape of an investigation

The only bit of evidence on Shopian "rapes and murders" has been lost as CFSL report says that the vaginal swabs of victims have...

Innocence trampled

A child killed by a father, a minor raped by a neighbour. More and more cases of child abuse are reported from different corners of the valley. Hamidullah Dar reports.

Cultivating a ‘high’

Farmers cultivate poppy as a cash crop. Tradition requires its use in bakery. But its bumper produce is challenging the administration’s efficiency and strength...

Facebooked

Social network sites are here, long before we realised. It could not have been announced more loudly than a murder over a virtual friendship.  Shazia Yousuf anlayses the phenomenon.

Confusion confounded

He described the autopsy and forensic reports of Shopain rape and murder inconclusive, but Justice Jan himself came out not only with an inconclusive...

Will exhumation lead the way?

Investigations into Shopian rape and murder has been complicated by loss of critical evidence. Autopsy has been deemed inconclusive. The question now is whether...

Investigation gets eyes, agitation continues

Investigation into the Shopian gang rape and murder is narrowing as eyewitnesses point to men in uniform. Shah Abbas reports.
Inside the Tent bodies of Neelofar and Asiya being exhumed for forensic tests. Pgoto: Bilal Bahadur

Can forensics provide answers?

(People demanding arrest of Shopian rape and murder case culprits - Photo by: Bilal Bahadur) Advances in forensic science can pinpoint the culprits in Shopian...

Murder most foul

JK Government’s one-man inquiry commission to probe the alleged rape and murder of a women and a teenage girl in Shopian, has its task...

You are right, Mr CM

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah admitted this week that institutions of state meant to protect and serve people have lost credibility in Kashmir.

Sex Slavery

Abducted, she spent more than a year as a sex slave entertaining drug addicts, paedophiles and other criminals who brutalized her childhood. She was...

In vortex of crime

From a society which believed that skies turn red when a murder is committed, Kashmir was made