STAYED: The High Court has stayed the trial court proceedings in Machil fake encounter case in which three innocent civilians were killed and passed off as militants by army. Justice Hakeem Imtiyaz Hussain admitted the Army’s petition seeking quashment of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Sopore’s order rejecting the court martial option for the accused Army personnel
PLANNED: Railways has forwarded Rs 22,831 crore project of Bhanupali-Leh railway line to Planning Commission after completing the survey. The consent of the commission is being sought to lay a broad gauge line between Bhanupali in Himachal Pradesh and Leh.
FREED: Shaukat Hussain Guru, convicted in the 2001 parliament attack case, was released from Tihar Jail New Delhi, a year ahead of his 10-year sentence because of remission on account of good conduct. He is cousin of Afzal Guru, who is on a death row in the same case and is awaiting president’s decision on his clemency petition.
MISSING: A Kashmiri student who had gone to pursue higher education in Madhya Pradesh has gone missing since December 24. Kaiser Ahmad Dar, 25, son of Ghulam Rasool Dar of Babgam Pulwama was traveling to sit in the entrance test for Ph.D in Sagar University MP. He went missing from Budwara locality, where he was staying with his friend, when he had gone to recharge his phone at 8.30 pm.
UNSPENT: A whopping Rs 35 crore of MPLADS funds of MP’s of J&K stands unspent, according to figures released by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats.
PLANNED: Police is setting up five more police stations in north Kashmir. The police department has submitted proposals to the home department for setting up five new police stations in Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora. The new police stations are proposed to be set up in Argam (Bandipora), Kralpora (Kupwara), Bomai (Sopore), Tarzoo (Sopore) and Qalamabad (Mawar).
FORCED: Doctors in frontier district of Kupwara went on a partial strike demanding action against SOG personnel who allegedly forced a doctor at sub district hospital of Sogam Kupwara to alter a medical report. The Jammu and Kashmir Junior Physicians Association and Doctors Associations Kashmir have threatened to launch valley wide strike if the culprits are not punished within a week.
DECIDED: The State government has decided that spouses and children of all militants from Jammu and Kashmir, who decide to return to the State adopting recently announced ‘Rehabilitation Policy’, will be treated as ‘foreign nationals’ unless they are granted citizenship rights by the Union Government. Normal visa rules will apply to the spouses and children of militants, who return from Pakistan under the newly framed Rehabilitation Policy.
KILLED: A seven-day-old baby died at the GB Pant childrens’ hospital Srinagar allegedly after being injected expired medicine. The infant, hailing from Bijhama Uri of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district passed away at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.
RECOVERED: A human skeleton recovered from a migrant Kashmiri Pandit’s house in Ladoo, Pampore is being claimed to be of Mohammed Maqbool Dar, who had gone missing in 1995. Maqbool’s family members said that he was putting on the same clothes and shoes which were recovered from the spot. However, the skeleton has been sent for forensic examination while police initiated an investigation into the family claims. In 1995, Maqbool was picked up by un-identified persons and went missing. Maqbool’s elder brother, Yaseen who was the district commander of Al-Umar-Mujahideen was killed by the forces in a gun-battle in 1994.
AWARDED: A film on global warming produced by the Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) of the Kashmir University, produced and directed by Shahid Rasool and Shafqat Habib, has been awarded the best educational video of the year by New Delhi-based Consortium of Educational Communication. The film, Global warming — a catastrophe in making, along with the EMMRC Kolkata film, Sound and Images, won the national-level competition organised in Delhi.
LEFT: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today left for London to celebrate Christmas with his mother, Molly Abdullah, and other family members. Official sources said that Chief Minister would be off for a 10-day holiday. It will be second time in 2010 that the state shall be without head of the government. Unlike his predecessors Omar has not assigned the charge of the chief minister to the deputy chief minister.
