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Published from Srinagar | Jammu RNI No: 48956/88 Vol: 31 No. 39 Pages: 18 Rs. 5.00 epaper.GreaterKashmir.com GreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net, GreaterKashmir.news THURSDAY, February 08, 2018 21, Jamadi ul Awwal, 1439 31 st Year of publication Opposition says SMHS attack is a security lapse Government says investigation on ABID BASHIR Srinagar, Feb 7: A day after a top Laskhar-e-Toi- ba commander managed to flee from the SMHS hospital Srinagar, pris- ons department has urged the J&K Police to provide extra security cover to the inmates once they are out of Central Jail for medical check-up or trial. “We discussed the loop- holes in a review meet- ing. We keep on discuss- ing measures to ensure protection and safety of prisoners from time to time,” director general of prisons, S K Mishra told Greater Kashmir. “Keep- ing in view the recent incident where one pris- oner managed to flee, we have urged J&K police to ensure proper security to the prisoners. Prisoners are out only whether there is a need for their medi- cal check-up or whenever they have a trial in the court.” Mishra said that once the prisoner is out of Cen- tral Jail or for that matter any other prison, “he or she becomes the respon- sibility of the J&K police.” Cops apprehend Jaish strike on Afzal Guru anniversary In-house communication calls for maintaining extra vigil across Kashmir to foil possible militant attacks ABID BASHIR Srinagar, Feb 7: Jammu and Kashmir Police has sounded an alert across Kashmir after receiving reliable inputs suggesting that the Jaish-e-Muham- mad may carry out attacks on forces in the Valley by or before the hanging anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Guru. Guru, a resident of Doi- bgah, Sopore in Baramulla district was sent to gallows secretly in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on February 9, 2013. He was also buried within the premises of Tihar Jail. UMER MAQBOOL Jammu, Feb 7: The oppo- sition today described as “security lapse” the shootout in Srinagar on Tuesday in which two police personnel were killed and a Pakistani militant escaped, demand- ing a thorough probe into the incident. The issue echoed in the Legislative Assembly when the opposition demanded a statement from government. As soon as proceedings of the House began, NC MLAs stood up, demanding a statement from govern- ment over the shootout. “Whatever happened yes- terday at SMHS Srinagar is a security lapse. It has never happened before. It should be probed thoroughly,” NC’s Ali Muhammad Sagar said. “The government should tell us what it is doing to probe the incident. The attack has taken place in the heart of Srinagar city.” Supporting the demand, MLA Khansahab Hakim Muhammad Yasin said on the one hand the govern- ment is claiming that the situation is conducive for holding panchayat elections, but on the other the attack shows that the situation is very disturbing and tense. Expressing concern over the attack, CPI(M) legislator Muhammad Yousuf Tariga- mi also termed it as a serious security lapse. Responding to the opposi- tion, minister for Parliamen- tary Affairs Abdul Rehman Veeri said investigation has been taken up in the inci- dent. Giving details, he said a Pakistani militant managed to escape from the police cus- tody after militants attacked a police party in SMHS hos- pital Srinagar. FOLLOW-UP Naveed escape: Police to enhance vigil on jailed militants Had Sardar Patel been 1 st PM, entire Kashmir would have been ours: Modi PM's wife injured in road accident, one relative dead INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE Chittorgarh, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben sustained injuries while a relative died when their car rammed into a truck in Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, police said. According to informa- tion, Jashodaben was trav- elling in an Innova with four other people when their vehicle collided with a truck on the Chittorgarh- Kota four-lane road. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA New Delhi, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invoked first Deputy Prime Minis- ter of India Sardar Vallab- hbhai Patel, while criticis- ing the Congress party in the Lok Sabha for "divid- ing the country". "If Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel would have been the first Prime Minister of the country, then entire Kash- mir would have been ours," he said. The Prime Minister was speaking on the Motion of Thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind's joint address to the Parliament. Modi also hit at the Con- gress, saying partition of India was result of the party's wrong policies. "Partition was a result of Congress' wrong poli- cies. Not a single day has passed when the coun- try has not suffered due to poison sowed by you," said PM Modi during his address in the Lok Sabha. Slamming the Opposi- tion amid the chaos cre- ated by them during PM Modi's address, he said, "You divided the country, despite which the country supported you. You used to rule the nation during a time when the Opposition had no power." " Aapne (Congress) pura samay ek parivar ke geet gaane me laga diya, ek hi parivar ko desh yaad rakhe saari shakti usi mein laga di. Agar neeyat saaf hoti toh ye desh jahan hai, usse kahin aage hota. (For decades, one party devoted all their energies to serving one family. The interests of the nation were looked over just for the interests of one family)", he added. Prime Minister contin- ued to speak even when the Opposition kept rais- ing slogans, "Democracy is not a reward granted to us by Congress or Nehru ji, democracy is in our blood, it is our tradition." INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE New Delhi, Feb 7: The Con- gress on Wednesday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is "at its worst" as it described the escape of LeT militant from a hospital in Srinagar as a "failure" of the BJP-PDP government. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said the escape of Naveed Jat alias Abu Hunzullah from the SMHS hospital on Tuesday, "doesn't reflect good" on the state or the country. "I have been reiterating that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is its worst. "On Tuesday a LeT mili- tant escaped when he was being taken to the S.M.H.S hospital for a medical check up from Srinagar Central Jail in the morning," he said. Calling Hunzullah's escape "the first such inci- dent in last 20 years, Azad said: "Such incidents used to happen in 1990s." "This doesn't reflect good. It's not good for the state, as well as for the country. "There was mistake on part of the state government because such a militant was being taken to hospital with- out proper security arrange- ments," he said. "He could have been taken to an Army hospital. Why was he taken to SMHS (Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital)," Azad said. It is a multi-speciality hospital in the Karan Nagar area of Srinagar. The former Chief Minis- ter describing the incident as "unfortunate", demanded a full-fledged discussion over the security situation in the state. Azad urged the govern- ment to remain alert while dealing with such situation. "Such incidents should not be repeated in future," he said. Govt to provide free education to 120 girls: Altaf Bukhari Kashmir situation ‘at its worst’: Congress attacks J&K Govt Incidents like Lashkar commander’s escape used to happen in 1990s: Azad GK NEWS NETWORK Jammu, Feb 7: Minister for Education Syed Moham- mad Altaf Bukhari today announced that the State government will provide free education to 120 girls across the state who desire to pursue their Graduation or Post Graduation from IGNOU. The State govern- ment will pay fees of these girl students, he said. The Minister was speak- ing during a program on “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan” organized by IGNOU centre 1287D at Teachers Bhawan, Gandhi Nagar here today. The Minister said that educating a girl and empow- ering her is a key for the development of the society and called for equal access to education for the girl child enabling her to play a proactive role in the socio- economic development of the country. MUDDASIR ALI Srinagar, Feb 7: After a long delay, J&K government has cleared a proposal to set up first zoo in the Kashmir Valley at famed hill resort of Pahalgam. After receiving nod from central zoo authority of India and the state wildlife protection board headed by chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, the J&K wildlife department has written to state forest department for acquiring 31 hectares of forest land. Proposed over an area of around 40 hectares, the Rs 100 crore zoo would be set up in Aru wildlife sanctu- ary in Pahalagm and would include the existing “mini- zoo”, said regional wildlife warden Rashid Naqash. The funding for the project has been allocated under CAMPA. “Once the formalities are completed we will hire a consultancy for preparing master plan for execution of the zoo,” said Naqash. An official said the idea to establish the zoo was being explored for past many years. The government had initially proposed to set up the facility in the outskirts of summer capital Srinagar, somewhere around Dachi- gam National Park. But the central zoo authority of India didn’t find the location feasible, also due to inad- equate area available. Kashmir to get its first zoo at tourist resort Pahalgam Hangul among other species will be moved to the facility See PM's wife...on Pg-10 See Kashmir...on Pg-10 See Kashmir...on Pg-10 See Cabinet...on Pg-10 See Opposition...on Pg-10 See Period...on Pg-10 See Naveed...on Pg-10 See Govt to...on Pg-10 See Kashmir to get...on Pg-10 PTI/GKNN New Delhi, Feb 7: A Delhi court today granted bail to Bilal Ahmed Kawa, a Kashmiri businessman arrested recently in con- nection with the 2000 Red Fort attack case, saying other accused having more serious charges against them have been either acquitted or discharged in the case. Kawa was arrested from Terminal-3 of the Delhi air- port on January 10 during a joint operation by the Delhi Police and the Guja- rat Anti-Terrorism Squad. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma also took on record the Income Tax Returns filed by Kawa, which, according to the accused, showed that he was not absconding. Kashmir businessman Bilal Kawa gets bail in Red Fort attack case Other co-accused having more serious charges have been either acquitted or discharged: Court GK NEWS NETWORK Srinagar, Feb 7: The Srinagar-Jammu highway was re-opened for traffic on Wednesday after its closure due to landslides even as Meteorological department has predicted light rains and snowfall on Sunday. “There are chances of light rains in plains and snowfall in upper reaches on Sunday,” director MeT, Sonam Lotus told Greater Kashmir. MeT officials said that clear sky has led to decrease in night temperatures across Kashmir and Ladakh. They said that Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 3.9 degrees Celsius, down from the previous night's minus 1.7 degrees Celsius. They said Qazigund registered a low of minus 4 degrees Cel- sius, compared to minus 2.4 degrees Celsius the previous night. Respite from dry spell likely on Feb 11 UMER MAQBOOL Jammu, Feb 7: The Jammu & Kashmir government has in-principle agreed to defer Panchayat polls, sources told Greater Kashmir . Sources disclosed that government has made up its mind not to hold the polls given the fragile situation in Kashmir. “The government won’t hold the polls at this stage. The State government has convinced the Government of India that situation is not conducive to hold the exer- cise,” they said. According to sources, there is no agenda item related to Panchayat polls in Thursday’s cabinet meet- ing. “The polls may not come at all for discussion during the meeting,” the source said. As already reported by Greater Kashmir, J&K’s major political forces bar- ring the BJP have favoured deferring the polls during the all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti here on Sunday. Citing “volatile” law and situation in Kashmir, the political parties suggested to the government that time was not right for the exer- cise. “The majority view was that situation doesn’t allow holding of the polls immediately. They sug- gested that we should wait for some time,” Minister of Rural Development Depart- ment Abdul Haq Khan had told reporters after the meeting. Chief Minister had earli- er announced that the polls would be held from Febru- ary 15. J&K Government ‘in-principle’ agrees to defer Panchayat polls Cabinet meeting today GK NEWS NETWORK Jammu, Feb 7: The state cabinet would meet here on Thursday to take a final call on introduction of sev- eral bills during the ongo- ing budget session. According to sources, the cabinet would meet at 3 p.m. to approve a bill for amending the 4th sched- ule of J&K Constitution to increase the salary of Chief Justice and Judges of J&K High Court. The revision would come into effect from 01.01.2016. D A RASHID Srinagar, Feb 7: Ruling that the period of absence treated as ‘dies-non’ cannot confer ben- efit of seniority or experience, the High Court has directed the government to examine if Dr Shashi Gupta, head of department Gynaecology and Obstetrics GMC Jammu, was promoted to the post of professor in contravention to the recom- mendations by the Public Service Commission (PSC). Disposing of a petition by one Dr Indu Kaul seeking directions to quash promotion of Dr Gupta as well as her removal from the post HOD Gynaecol- ogy and Obstetrics, a single bench of Justice Alok Aradhe at Jammu also directed the Commis- sioner Secretary to Govern- ment, Health and Medical Period of absence from service can’t confer benefit of seniority: High Court COURT WATCH 3 soldiers injured in accidental explosion near LoC Jammu, Feb 7: At least three Army personnel sustained injuries when a mine exploded near the Line of Control (LoC) in Battal belt of Akhnoor. “Three soldiers suffered minor injuries when a mine explosion took place in Battal belt,” official sources here said. GKNN See Respite...on Pg-10 See Had Sardar...on Pg-10 See Cops...on Pg-10 See J&K Government...on Pg-10 Mir Imran/GK CMYK
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Published from Srinagar | Jammu RNI No: 48956/88 Vol: 31 No. 39 Pages: 18 Rs. 5.00 epaper.GreaterKashmir.comGreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net, GreaterKashmir.news
ThurSday, February 08, 2018 21, Jamadi ul Awwal, 1439 31st Year of publication
Opposition says SMHS attack is a security lapseGovernment says investigation on
Abid bAshir
Srinagar, Feb 7: A day after a top Laskhar-e-Toi-ba commander managed to flee from the SMHS hospital Srinagar, pris-ons department has urged the J&K Police to provide extra security cover to the inmates once they are out of Central Jail for medical check-up or trial.
“We discussed the loop-holes in a review meet-ing. We keep on discuss-ing measures to ensure protection and safety of prisoners from time to time,” director general of
prisons, S K Mishra told Greater Kashmir. “Keep-ing in view the recent incident where one pris-oner managed to flee, we have urged J&K police to ensure proper security to the prisoners. Prisoners are out only whether there is a need for their medi-cal check-up or whenever they have a trial in the court.”
Mishra said that once the prisoner is out of Cen-tral Jail or for that matter any other prison, “he or she becomes the respon-sibility of the J&K police.”
Cops apprehend Jaish strike on Afzal Guru anniversaryIn-house communication calls for maintaining extra vigil across Kashmir to foil possible militant attacks
Abid bAshir
Srinagar, Feb 7: Jammu and Kashmir Police has sounded an alert across Kashmir after receiving reliable inputs suggesting that the Jaish-e-Muham-mad may carry out attacks on forces in the Valley by or before the hanging anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Guru.
Guru, a resident of Doi-bgah, Sopore in Baramulla district was sent to gallows secretly in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on February 9, 2013. He was also buried within the premises of Tihar Jail.
Umer mAqbool
Jammu, Feb 7: The oppo-sition today described as “security lapse” the shootout in Srinagar on Tuesday in which two police personnel were killed and a Pakistani militant escaped, demand-ing a thorough probe into the incident.
The issue echoed in the Legislative Assembly when the opposition demanded a statement from government.
As soon as proceedings of the House began, NC MLAs stood up, demanding a statement from govern-ment over the shootout. “Whatever happened yes-terday at SMHS Srinagar is a security lapse. It has never happened before. It should be probed thoroughly,” NC’s Ali Muhammad Sagar said.
“The government should tell us what it is doing to probe the incident. The
attack has taken place in the heart of Srinagar city.”
Supporting the demand, MLA Khansahab Hakim Muhammad Yasin said on the one hand the govern-ment is claiming that the situation is conducive for holding panchayat elections, but on the other the attack shows that the situation is very disturbing and tense.
Expressing concern over the attack, CPI(M) legislator Muhammad Yousuf Tariga-
mi also termed it as a serious security lapse.
Responding to the opposi-tion, minister for Parliamen-tary Affairs Abdul Rehman Veeri said investigation has been taken up in the inci-dent.
Giving details, he said a Pakistani militant managed to escape from the police cus-tody after militants attacked a police party in SMHS hos-pital Srinagar.
FOLLOW-UP
Naveed escape: Police to enhance vigil on jailed militants
had Sardar Patel been 1st PM, entire Kashmir would have been ours: Modi
PM's wife injured in road accident, one relative dead
indo-AsiAn news service
Chittorgarh, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben sustained injuries while a relative died when their car rammed into a truck in Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, police said.
According to informa-tion, Jashodaben was trav-elling in an Innova with four other people when their vehicle collided with a truck on the Chittorgarh-Kota four-lane road.
Press trUst of indiA
New Delhi, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invoked first Deputy Prime Minis-ter of India Sardar Vallab-hbhai Patel, while criticis-ing the Congress party in the Lok Sabha for "divid-ing the country".
"If Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel would have been the first Prime Minister of the country, then entire Kash-mir would have been ours," he said.
The Prime Minister was speaking on the Motion of Thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind's joint address to the Parliament.
Modi also hit at the Con-gress, saying partition of
India was result of the party's wrong policies.
"Partition was a result of Congress' wrong poli-cies. Not a single day has passed when the coun-try has not suffered due to poison sowed by you," said PM Modi during his address in the Lok Sabha.
Slamming the Opposi-tion amid the chaos cre-ated by them during PM Modi's address, he said, "You divided the country, despite which the country supported you. You used to rule the nation during a time when the Opposition had no power."
"Aapne (Congress) pura samay ek parivar ke geet gaane me laga diya, ek hi parivar ko desh yaad rakhe saari shakti usi mein laga di. Agar neeyat saaf hoti toh ye desh jahan hai, usse kahin aage hota. (For decades, one party devoted all their energies to serving one family. The interests of the nation were looked over just for the interests of one family)", he added.
Prime Minister contin-ued to speak even when the Opposition kept rais-ing slogans, "Democracy is not a reward granted to us by Congress or Nehru ji, democracy is in our blood, it is our tradition."
indo-AsiAn news service
New Delhi, Feb 7: The Con-gress on Wednesday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is "at its worst" as it described the escape of LeT militant from a hospital in Srinagar as a "failure" of the BJP-PDP government.
Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said the escape of Naveed Jat alias Abu Hunzullah from the SMHS hospital on Tuesday, "doesn't reflect good" on the state or the country.
"I have been reiterating that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is its worst.
"On Tuesday a LeT mili-tant escaped when he was being taken to the S.M.H.S
hospital for a medical check up from Srinagar Central Jail in the morning," he said.
Calling Hunzullah's escape "the first such inci-dent in last 20 years, Azad said: "Such incidents used to happen in 1990s."
"This doesn't reflect good. It's not good for the state, as well as for the country.
"There was mistake on
part of the state government because such a militant was being taken to hospital with-out proper security arrange-ments," he said.
"He could have been taken to an Army hospital. Why was he taken to SMHS (Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital)," Azad said. It is a multi-speciality hospital in the Karan Nagar area of Srinagar.
The former Chief Minis-ter describing the incident as "unfortunate", demanded a full-fledged discussion over the security situation in the state.
Azad urged the govern-ment to remain alert while dealing with such situation. "Such incidents should not be repeated in future," he said.
Govt to provide free education to 120 girls: Altaf Bukhari
Kashmir situation ‘at its worst’: Congress attacks J&K GovtIncidents like Lashkar commander’s escape used to happen in 1990s: Azad
GK news networK
Jammu, Feb 7: Minister for Education Syed Moham-mad Altaf Bukhari today announced that the State government will provide free education to 120 girls across the state who desire to pursue their Graduation or Post Graduation from IGNOU. The State govern-ment will pay fees of these girl students, he said.
The Minister was speak-ing during a program on “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan” organized by IGNOU centre 1287D at Teachers Bhawan, Gandhi
Nagar here today.The Minister said that
educating a girl and empow-ering her is a key for the development of the society and called for equal access
to education for the girl child enabling her to play a proactive role in the socio-economic development of the country.
mUddAsir Ali
Srinagar, Feb 7: After a long delay, J&K government has cleared a proposal to set up first zoo in the Kashmir Valley at famed hill resort of Pahalgam.
After receiving nod from central zoo authority of India and the state wildlife protection board headed by
chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, the J&K wildlife department has written to state forest department for acquiring 31 hectares of forest land.
Proposed over an area of around 40 hectares, the Rs 100 crore zoo would be set up in Aru wildlife sanctu-ary in Pahalagm and would include the existing “mini-
zoo”, said regional wildlife warden Rashid Naqash. The funding for the project has been allocated under CAMPA.
“Once the formalities are completed we will hire a consultancy for preparing master plan for execution of the zoo,” said Naqash.
An official said the idea to establish the zoo was being
explored for past many years. The government had initially proposed to set up the facility in the outskirts of summer capital Srinagar, somewhere around Dachi-gam National Park. But the central zoo authority of India didn’t find the location feasible, also due to inad-equate area available.
Kashmir to get its first zoo at tourist resort PahalgamHangul among other species will be moved to the facility
See PM's wife...on Pg-10 See Kashmir...on Pg-10
See Kashmir...on Pg-10
See Cabinet...on Pg-10
See Opposition...on Pg-10
See Period...on Pg-10
See Naveed...on Pg-10
See Govt to...on Pg-10
See Kashmir to get...on Pg-10
Pti/GKnn
New Delhi, Feb 7: A Delhi court today granted bail to Bilal Ahmed Kawa, a Kashmiri businessman arrested recently in con-nection with the 2000 Red Fort attack case, saying other accused having more serious charges against them have been either acquitted or discharged in the case.
Kawa was arrested from Terminal-3 of the Delhi air-port on January 10 during a joint operation by the Delhi Police and the Guja-rat Anti-Terrorism Squad.
Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma also took on record the Income Tax Returns filed by Kawa, which, according to the accused, showed that he was not absconding.
Kashmir businessman Bilal Kawa gets bail in Red Fort attack caseOther co-accused having more serious charges have been either acquitted or discharged: Court
GK news networK
Srinagar, Feb 7: The Srinagar-Jammu highway was re-opened for traffic on Wednesday after its closure due to landslides even as Meteorological department has predicted light rains and snowfall on Sunday.
“There are chances of light rains in plains and snowfall in upper reaches on Sunday,” director MeT, Sonam Lotus told Greater Kashmir.
MeT officials said that clear sky has led to decrease in night temperatures across Kashmir and Ladakh.
They said that Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 3.9 degrees Celsius, down from the previous night's minus 1.7 degrees Celsius. They said Qazigund registered a low of minus 4 degrees Cel-sius, compared to minus 2.4 degrees Celsius the previous night.
Respite from dry spell likely on Feb 11
Umer mAqbool
Jammu, Feb 7: The Jammu & Kashmir government has in-principle agreed to defer Panchayat polls, sources told Greater Kashmir.
Sources disclosed that government has made up its mind not to hold the polls given the fragile situation in Kashmir.
“The government won’t hold the polls at this stage. The State government has convinced the Government of India that situation is not conducive to hold the exer-cise,” they said.
According to sources, there is no agenda item related to Panchayat polls in Thursday’s cabinet meet-ing. “The polls may not come at all for discussion during the meeting,” the source said.
As already reported by
Greater Kashmir, J&K’s major political forces bar-ring the BJP have favoured deferring the polls during the all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti here on Sunday.
Citing “volatile” law and situation in Kashmir, the political parties suggested to the government that time was not right for the exer-cise. “The majority view was that situation doesn’t allow holding of the polls immediately. They sug-gested that we should wait for some time,” Minister of Rural Development Depart-ment Abdul Haq Khan had told reporters after the meeting.
Chief Minister had earli-er announced that the polls would be held from Febru-ary 15.
J&K Government ‘in-principle’ agrees to defer Panchayat polls
Cabinet meeting today
GK news networK
Jammu, Feb 7: The state cabinet would meet here on Thursday to take a final call on introduction of sev-eral bills during the ongo-ing budget session.
According to sources, the cabinet would meet at 3 p.m. to approve a bill for amending the 4th sched-ule of J&K Constitution to increase the salary of Chief Justice and Judges of J&K High Court. The revision would come into effect from 01.01.2016.
d A rAshid
Srinagar, Feb 7: Ruling that the period of absence treated as ‘dies-non’ cannot confer ben-efit of seniority or experience, the High Court has directed the government to examine if Dr Shashi Gupta, head of department Gynaecology and Obstetrics GMC Jammu, was promoted to the post of professor in contravention to the recom-
mendations by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
Disposing of a petition by one Dr Indu Kaul seeking
directions to quash promotion of Dr Gupta as well as her removal from the
post HOD Gynaecol-ogy and Obstetrics, a
single bench of Justice Alok Aradhe at Jammu also directed the Commis-sioner Secretary to Govern-ment, Health and Medical
Period of absence from service can’t confer benefit of seniority: High Court
court watch
3 soldiers injured in accidental explosion near LoCJammu, Feb 7: At least three Army personnel sustained injuries when a mine exploded near the Line of Control (LoC) in Battal belt of Akhnoor.“Three soldiers suffered minor injuries when a mine explosion took place in Battal belt,” official sources here said. GKNN
See Respite...on Pg-10
See Had Sardar...on Pg-10
See Cops...on Pg-10 See J&K Government...on Pg-10
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