RETURNED: Mohammad Shaheen, a school teacher from Mansar in Samba, was detected alive shortly before he would be buried. He was injured in a road accident and admitted to various hospitals. It was a police party that wanted to see him and take for post-mortem when a cop detected he is alive. Now police is investigating whether he had been declared dead by any hospital or there is just another story to it.
WITHDRAWN: Around 1000 personnel of the CRPF deployed in Srinagar city are being withdrawn and 10 more bunkers are being removed. Already 16 bunkers were removed in the city in October.
SHIFTED: CJM Srinagar transferred the trial of Zahid Farooq murder case to BSF Court. Accused Commandant R K Birdhi and constable Lukhvinder Kumar were also handed over to the BSF on grounds that the accused were on ‘active duty’ at the time of occurrence of the incident. The murder took place on February 5, 2010 at Brian Nishat and Union Home Minister helped the state to get the accused arrested within days. BSF had sought the transfer of the case to the BSF court in April.
FREED: Carpet weaver Ghulam Mohammad Dar, a resident of old Srinagar, was set free after nine years. He was detained under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in 2001 at a time when the law was yet to be formally implemented across India. His house was sealed and wife, two sons and aged mother evicted, bringing them on streets. Though NDA’s law was rolled back by UPA, nothing changed for Dar till the court dismissed the case and permitted him to walk free.
ESCALATED: Extending rail to Srinagar from Jammu was expected to cost Rs 2500 crores when the work started in 2001. Now the government says it could cross Rs 16000 crore. It is ready between Baramulla and Qazigund and Jammu and Katra. But people working on it believe it must cross Rs 20000 crores if and when it completes.
DECIDED: Schools for four classes starting from ninth standard would remain open for the winter months for four classes. Efforts are underway to offer the institutions the necessary heating systems to enable them to function. But there are 250 schools without windows, 75 without a building and 944 lacking enough space. A fierce debate is on whether the move is advisable or not. But Kashmir is perhaps the only place in world’s winter zone where majors stop going school.
DIRECTED: A south Kashmir court directed police to register a fresh FIR into the killing of two youth in police firing at Khanabal on September 18. Though police had said an FIR registered already is covering the two killings but the CJM Ms Jeema Bashir was not convinced. The direction came on a petition by the families that police intends to hush up the cases.
REJECTED: Central government has rejected the demand for a fresh probe into the death of Captain Sumit Kohli made by his family saying an Army probe has already found the officer had committed suicide. He was posted in Lolab, Kupwara and prior to his mysterious death in April 2006, some Hindu labourers were killed in fake encounter. Barely two months before his death he had won India’s third highest peacetime gallantry medal.
SERVED: State government has served notice to all the power producers including NHPC to get their licences to operate renewed within six months under the Water Resources (Regulation and Management) Act, new law that would make them to pay for the water usage. The law gives concerned DCs right to stop them from using water if they lack a licence. Licence would cost them half a million rupees and they will have to pay a minimum of two paisa per cubic meter of water use.
DELAYED: The 45-MW Nimo Bazgo being set up by NHPC in Ladakh is delayed by nine months. While Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) tasked to deliver turbines for the first unit has failed sticking to its schedule, the project suffered for want of labour after the cloudburst and snapping of an access road. Even the 40 percent of the 300-kms long transmission line is not complete. NHPC says all the three units of 15 MWs each would now go into operation in September 2012.
REVEALED: Pakistan army has finally accepted that it lost 453 soldiers in the Kargil ‘war’ in 1999 summer. It had codenamed the operation as “Operation Koh-e-Paima”. India lost over 500 soldiers in the conflict that ended with US intervention.
