Friday August 10, 20184 DISTRICTS27 bovines rescued, smuggler held STATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA/RAJOURI: Police on Thursday foiled four bovinesmuggling bid by rescuing 27 bovines and arresting a smuggler.

According to a report, a team of Ghagwal Police Station head-ed by SI Bansi Lal Sharma SHO Ghagwal Police Station onthe directions of SSP Samba Dr Koushal Kumar Sharma laida Naka on Jammu Pathankot National Highway near Tapyaland signalled a truck (JK02AS- 9811) coming from Kathuaside but driver on seeing the police accelerated the vehicle andfled from spot.

He was chased and intercepted near Jatwal. During check-ing, it was found laden with 13 bovines which were rescued andthe truck was seized. The driver of the vehicle managed toescape from the spot, however a case vide FIR No. 109/2018under section 188 RPC, 2/3 PCA Act was registered at PoliceStation Ghagwal.

In Rajouri District, a team from Kalakote Police Station res-cued three bovines from smugglers at Potha. Bid was foiledafter cops saw some people moving along with bovines at somedistance and challenged them to stop but smugglers fled backleaving behind three bovines.

Another police team headed by Incharge PP Lamberi, SIVikram Jasrotia rescued four bovines. An information aboutmovement of smugglers was received after which police teamrushed to Dhankaar Lamberi Road but smugglers saw policevehicle from some distance and fled from there leaving behindfour bovines. A team from Budhal Police Station arrestedShabir Ahmed son of Abdul Hamid resident of Draman whowas found carrying seven bovines in a smuggling bid by foot.All the bovines have been rescued. Police has taken cognisancein all these cases at Police Stations of Kalakote, Nowshera andBudhal.

Notorious criminal, drug peddlerdetained under PSA

STATE TIMES NEWSSAMBA: A notorious criminal and drug peddler was detainedunder PSA at Samba on Thursday.

He has been identified as Shiv Raj Singh (26) son of IsherSingh resident of Gurha Slathia Samba.

In order to curtail the activities of hardcore criminal who isinvolved in number of criminal activities and is a great threatto the life and liberty of the people of Samba District particu-larly Vijaypur town, a special team of Police Station Vijaypurunder the overall supervision of Dr. Koshal Kumar Sharma,SSP Samba and under close supervision of Baljeet Singh,SDPO Vijaypurand Inspr. Rajinder Sharma, SHO PoliceStation Vijaypur was constituted and the arrest of the saidaccused person was affected. Influential and hardcore criminal,the subject is also a notorious drug peddler and involved in anumber of drug smuggling cases.

Accordingly, in order to put an end to his prejudicial criminalactivities, District Police Samba compiled all the police recordof said Shiv Raj Singh alias Raju prepared his dossier and gotissued his warrant under Public Safety Act from SushmaChauhan, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Samba vide her officeorder No. 03/PSA of 2018 dated August 6, 2018 to preventhim from indulging in prejudicial criminal activities and lodgedthe said detune in Sub-Jail Hiranagar on August 9, 2018 afterexecution of warrant under PSA issued against him. With thearrest of said hardcore criminal/drug peddler the people of thearea had a sigh of relief.

Four taken into preventive custodySTATE TIMES NEWS

RAJOURI: Four persons have been taken into preventive cus-tody for their involvement in anti-social activities.

Complaint/dossier for their detention was submitted beforeExecutive Magistrates by police and detention order wereissued by Executive Magistrates.

Among these four, three persons were detained in Darhal whoinclude Altaf Hussain son of Hamidullah resident of Chowkian( Aged 35 ), Zaffer Iqbal son of Abdul Hamid resident ofChowkian (32) and Mohd Imran son of Mohd Ayoub residentof Chowkian (22).

Their detention order were issued by Executive Magistratefrom Darhal and have been detained under preventive deten-tion under section 107/151/110 CRPC and lodged in DistrictJail Dhangri and detention order was implemented by SHODarhal Habib Pathan under the supervision of SDPOThanamandi Iftikar Chowdhary.

Meanwhile, a team of police headed by SHO Budhal JahangirAhmed implemented an order for detention of Sajad Ahmedson of Abdul Qayoom resident of Samote Budhal. The order fortaking him in preventive custody was issued by ExecutiveMagistrate on the basis of a complaint /dossier submitted bylocal police. He has also been lodged in District jail Dhangri.

Missing girl traced STATE TIMES NEWS

RAJOURI: A missing girl has been traced by police and hand-ed over to her family. Missing report of the girl was lodged byher brother in Budhal Police Station on August 6, who report-ed that his real sister had left the house on August 4 , due tosome arguments with her elder sister. On this, a missing reportwas entered vide DD no.11 dated August 6, 2018 and searchwas started. Meanwhile, today it was reliably learnt that thesaid girl is at Kotranka in the house of her friend and she wastraced accordingly and then handed over to her family aftercompletion of legal formalities.

Two thieves nabbed with stolen money STATE TIMES NEWS

BHADARWAH: Police on Thursday solved a theft case byarresting two thieves and recovering stolen money. As per thedetail, a local shopkeeper namely Zahoor Ahmed reported atheft case in his shop at Seri Bazar, Bhadarwah in PoliceStation Bhadarwah stating that his shop is located at SeriBazar Bhaderwah and at 1: 20 PM he came out of his shop forwater and after five minutes he came back and saw one personcoming out of his shop with cash in his hand whom he can iden-tify but did not know his name. On checking cash box he cameto know that Rs 52,000 have been stolen by that person. Onthis a case vide FIR No.136/2018 under section 379 RPC wasregistered and during investigation on examining CCTVfootage the accused was identified as Talha son of ShabirAhmed Sheikh resident of Saraf Mohalla. Police tacticallyapprehended him and on his disclosure amount of Rs 44000were recovered and amount of Rs 7900 was recovered from hisfriend Omar son of Farooq Ahmed R/O Saraf Mohalla. Boththe accused have been arrested and recovered the stolenamount. The arrest and recovery was made by Police Party ofPolice Station Bhadarwah led by SHO Bhadarwah InpMuneer Khan under the supervision of SDPO BhadarwahTouseef Ahmed, ASP Bhadarwah Rajinder Singh and overallsupervision of SSP Doda Shabir Malik.

Stolen bike recovered, lifter held STATE TIMES NEWS

UDHAMPUR: Police on Thursday arrested a thief and recov-ered stolen bike on his disclosure. Acting on complaint of ownerof bike Puran Singh son of Indar Singh resident of village Rittilocality, Roun Police Post team led by In charge Police PostJaswinder Singh assisted by Sgt. Gian Singh and SPOKuldeep Kumar under the supervision of Dy.SP (HQ) KulbirHanda conducted raids to nab a local thieve and arrested himfrom Udhampur outskirt. Stolen bike was recovered on his dis-closure and a case vide FIR No. 407/2018 under section 379RPC was registered against the accused.

STATE TIMES NEWS UDHAMPUR: DivisionalCommissioner, JammuSanjeev Verma along withDistrict DevelopmentCommissioner, UdhampurRavinder Kumar todayinspected progress on tourismprojects at Sudhmahadev andMantalai.

The twin places of religiousand historical importance arebeing projected as majorattraction for the tourists visit-ing Jammu and Kashmir.

The Div Com also reviewedthe achievements registeredunder agriculture and alliedsector schemes in the area.

He took detailed review of theprogress on tourism, infra-structural projects besides flag-ship schemes of AgricultureHorticulture including promo-tion of cluster organic farmingand indigenous practices beingadopted by the farming com-munity of Sudhmahadev -Mantalai areas for their eco-nomic and social empower-ment. The Div Com inspectedongoing construction onInternational Yoga CentreMantalai and instructed theconcerned agencies for its time-ly completion. He asked

Agriculture department toexplore the possibility of devel-oping Potato farm, Appleorchards, Walnut orchards andother fruit orchards on Stateland.

Later, the DivisionalCommissioner chaired a meet-ing of District/ Sectoral officersof line departments andreviewed the functioning ofthese departments.

The meeting had detailed dis-cussion on various vital issuespertaining to Agriculture,Horticulture, Health, PWD,PMGSY, PDD, Education andother sectors. The meetingstressed on widening ofChenani Sudhmahadev road

and adopting multi prongedstrategy to further streamlinethe working of executing agen-cies and other connecteddepartments for time boundcompletion of projects aimed atpromotion of tourism in thearea. The Div Com emphasizedupon the officers and executingagencies to speed up the paceof work on all developmentaland tourism projects toensure their timeline comple-tion. He directed the districtadministration to remove bot-tleneck, if any to avoid delayand cost escalation of the proj-ects. During the review meet-ing, the Div.Com directed theofficers to work with full dedi-

cation and accountability. Heasked them to resolve the griev-ances of the common masses ina time bound manner and alsoorganize awareness camps andworkshops at block levels toenable maximum farmers toavail the benefits of schemes.

He also asked the concernedto ensure availability of seeds,fertilizers, pesticides and otherinputs for the farmers.

The DivisionalCommissioner also interactedwith members of Umeed SelfHelp Group, NGOs,Sudhmahadev VegetableProducer Company Ltd andappreciated their work. Hegave a patient hearing to theirdemands and assured earlyredress.

Div Com asked the DDC toidentify land for establishmentof Mandi to provide market tolocal agriculture produce andalso identify suitable Place forshops on National highwaywhere local producers can selltheir packed products. Hedirected Agriculture,Horticulture and Rural DevDepartment to work in coordi-nation for effective implemen-tation of Centrally SponsoredSchemes (CSS).

Div Com inspects progress on tourismprojects at Sudhmahadev, Mantalai

Divisional Commissioner, Jammu Sanjeev Verma takingstock of works on projects at Udhampur.

STATE TIMES NEWS REASI: First Meeting of'Nagar RajbhashaImplementation Committee'was organised at Salal PowerStation on Thursday underthe chairmanship ofHimanshu Shekhar, GeneralManager Salal Power Station/ Chairman of the Committeewho inaugurated the meetingin association with ParmodKumar Sharma, Dy. Director( I m p l e m e n t a t i o n ) ,Rajbhasha Deptt. Ministry ofHome, Govt. Of India whopresided over the meeting asa Special guest and otherSenior Officers.

The proceeding of the meet-ing started with brief intro-duction by the representa-tives of participating memberorganisations like CISF, UnitSalal, CRPF Bidda, CRPFKatra, Principals from KV,Jyotipuram and NavodyaVidyalaya, SBI Reasi &

Katra, BSNL Reasi, PNBReasi & Katra, Uco Bank,Central Bank of India,Oriental Bank of Commerce,Canra Bank , Reasi,NABARD and KonkanRailway.

In his address, ParmodSharma, Dy. Director( I m p l e m e n t a t i o n ) ,Rajbhasha Deptt. Whileappreciating the efforts madeby member organisations,particularly Salal Power

Station requested Heads ofthe Deptts. to ensure imple-mentation of RajbhashaPolicies in true letter andspirit, to motivate theemployees in their respectiveorganisations to perform daytoday routine office works inRajbhasha Hindi with the useof popular words and aboveall timely submission of req-uisite reports.

Speaking on the occasion,Shekhar said that desired

results for implementation ofRajbhasha shall be achievedwhen each of us shall startworking in Hindi as a matterof habit. Once we start, weshall find it easier than anyother language. Shekharrequested the participants/Heads of variousOrganisations to maximisetheir Office work in Hindi formotivation of the employeesworking in their respectiveOffices.

On the occasion, SalalPower Station, CRPF 126thBatallian and CRPF 6thBatallian won first, secondand third prizes for imple-mentation of Rajbhasha anda Rajbhasha house jouranalby NARAKAS Reasi wasalso released by Shekhar,Parmod Kumar and others.

The programme concludedwith vote of thanks by Dr. P.LSharma, Manager (Lib.),Salal Power Station.

Salal Power Station organises Nagar RajbhashaImplementation Committee meeting

Prizes being distributed among winners at Reasi.STATE TIMES NEWS

UDHAMPUR: Members ofNGO 'Jiyo aur Jeene Do' onThursday organised a con-dolence meeting for theyoung innocent boy MurfadShah who was shot dead inJammu at Former CMFarooq' residence. Themembers of NGO paid floraltribute to him and also keptsilence for two minutes.They prayed to Almighty tofor his soul to rest in peace.

While speaking on theoccasion, President TariqShah demanded CBI probein the incident so that cul-prits should booked underlaw. He also demandedCCTV footage of the inci-dent so that actual factsshould came out and justicebe delivered to his family.Members of NGO, Krishna,Mukhtiar, Priya, Anju Devi,Ritu and Sahil were pres-ent.

NGO demands CBI inquiryin Murfad's killing

NGO members paying tributes to Murfad Shah at Udhampur.

STATE TIMES NEWS KISHTWAR: Districtadministration in functionaccorded warm send off tooutgoing SSP KishtwarAbrar Ahmed Choudhary onhis transfer and posting asCommandant IR 4thBattalion.

The function was organisedat Conference Hall of newDC Complex Kishtwar whichwas attended by all districtand sectoral officers fromcivil and police administra-tion. Those who spoke at theoccasion includes ADCKishori Lal Sharma, CPOYasir L.A Balwan, ACD AnilKumar Chandail , ARTOAbhay Indu Sharma , Dy. SP(Ops.) Nisar Khwaja besideother dignitaries also . Fewgazals were also presented byrenowned singer NisarAhmed Doolwal whichenthralled the audience.

While praising the remark-able tenure of outgoing SSP,DC Kishtwar Angrez SinghRana appreciated the servic-es of Abrar AhmedChoudhary in the capacity ofSSP Kishtwar. He said thatthe district witnessed declinein crime rate during thetenure of SSP. He furtheradded that the drug mafia

also received serious jolt andthose found involved in drugtrafficking were put behindbars. He further remindedthat the bad elements of thesociety also underwent sleep-less nights and FIRs standsregistered against them.

Further, DC lauded SSPAbrar Ahmed Choudhary ashighly competent and profes-sional Police Officer. Hethanked SSP for extendingfull cooperation in thesmooth run of administra-tion besides strict enforce-ment of law and order in theDistrict. He congratulatedthe outgoing SSP Kishtwarand wished him bright andprosperous future ahead.

Meanwhile , SSP Kishtwarshared his experience of serv-ing at Kishtwar and

thanked all the officers of dif-ferent line departments forshowing quick response asand when any informationwas sought by him. He alsoexpressed his deep regardstowards the people ofKishtwar for maintainingpeace, brotherhood , amityand communal harmony. Headvised the people ofKishtwar not to fall prey orgive any space to the bad ele-ments of the society who arefound in grab of an opportu-nity in order to vitiate thepeaceful atmosphere and tryto create fissures in the soci-ety. At the end of function ,DC Kishtwar honoured out-going SSP with a momentoand also presented him ashawl as a token of love andgood will gesture.

District Administration accordsfarewell to SSP Kishtwar

STATE TIMES NEWS BILLAWAR: Senior Congressleader and former Minister DrManohar Lal Sharma onThursday addressed a largegathering in Kandi area ofBillawar Constituency. Peoplefrom different walks of lifeparticipated in the programmeand expressed their helpless-ness and hardships which theyfaced under recent BJPregime. The inhabitants whoattended the meetingexpressed their heartful desireto bring Congress back intopower as they are fed up withthe hollow promises of BJPand said that they are beingbe-fooled for the last fouryears by fake promises.

Speaking on the occasion DrSharma said that BJP hasbrought an era of darkness for

the present young generationof J&K. He said that BJPfailed completely in providingjobs to educated youth andinstead of doing somethingbetter in jobs, BJP oustedmany of serving employees.Employees and youth of theState have faced the maxi-mum wrath of this weak andincapable BJP leadership.That government had failed inutilising the potential of theyouth and employees of theState and had created a stateof hopelessness and demoralis-ing mental attitude in theState of Jammu and Kashmir.

Dr Sharma said that peoplehave now understood religiouspolitics of BJP and are eager-ly waiting for Congress tocome to power as Congress isthe only hope of people.

People want Congressin power: Dr Manohar

Senior Congress leader Dr Manohar Lal Sharma addressing a public gathering at Billawar.

SSP Kishtwar Abrar Ahmed Choudhary being given farewell.

STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: Atleast 35 per-sons including some studentswere injured when the busthey were traveling skiddedof road and rolled atTatapani. Of 35 injured 28are under treatment at CHCKalakote whereas five werereferred to DH Rajouri and2 of SDH Sunderbani afterfirst aid and initial diagnosis.

On recievingthe informa-tion, Deputy CommissionerRajouri Mohd Aijaz Asad vis-ited Community HealthCentre Kalakote andenquired about the healthconditions of injured whomet with an accident atTatapani.

During his visit, the DCwent to all the injured per-

sons, talked to them and withtheir family members/ atten-dants. He directed the healthauthorities to take care of theinjured persons and ensurefree medicine, surgical equip-ments and other necessarytreatment including blood, if

required.While talking to the family

members of the injured, DCassured that every possiblehelp would be extended tothem from district adminis-tration for their early recov-ery.

35 injured in bus accident,DC Rajouri meets victims

DC Rajouri Mohd Aijaz Asad enquiring health of injured atCommunity Health Centre Kalakote.

STATE TIMES NEWS SAMBA: NSS unit of GDCSamba organised a visit toadopted village Kalibari onThursday. In order tospread awareness aboutcleanliness, NSS volun-teers interacted with localpeople. The volunteerswent for door to door cam-paign in the locality anddiscuss the problemscaused due to pollution.They emphasized theimportance of keeping oursurrounding clean andgreen to avoid epidemics.

They listened patientlywhen people talked aboutthe problems they face. Thevolunteers also shared theircreative minds regardingwaste management anddisposal with the local peo-ple. After awareness, NSSvolunteers with the help oflocal organised a cleanli-ness drive in the villagealso. The activity wasorganised by Prof ShivaliRattan NSS ProgrammeOfficer in association withDr. Ram Singh and Dr.Narsing Dass.

GDC Samba organisesvisit to adopted village

Faculty along with students during visit to village Kalibari.

Anti-encroachmentdrive held

STATE TIMES NEWS KATHUA: An antiencroachment drive was heldin Tehsil Basohli at BasohliBus Stand and main market.On the directions of ADCSanjay Gupta, a team com-prising of SHO Basohli,Executive Officer MCBasohli and TSO FCS&CAshifted Rehris and removedencroachments in front ofshops. Meanwhile, Rs 4,500was charged as fine fromsweet shop owners.

Revenue official heldfor teasing girl

STATE TIMES NEWSR S PURA: A revenue offi-cial was arrested forallegedly teasing a girl inJammu district, police said.A complaint was lodged bythe family members of thegirl stating that one PatwariBushan Kumar enteredtheir home in R S Pura, yes-terday, when the girl wasalone. Kumar teased theirgirl, the complaint furtherread. Kumar was arrestedand a case was registered.

STATE TIMES NEWS KISHTWAR: District

Development CommissionerAngrez Singh Rana todaychaired a meeting of districtand sectoral officers tofinalise the arrangements forthe smooth and enthusiasticcelebration of IndependenceDay 2018. It was decidedthat the main function shallbe organized at ParadeGround where the ChiefGuest would hoist the tricol-or and take the salute ofMarch Past contingents com-prising JKP, JKAP, CRPF,NCC, NSS and School chil-dren.

It was informed that

schools students and culturaltroupes would present a cul-tural programme on patrioticand educative themes. Theday will start with the play-ing of Shahnai Vadan by theInformation Department inthe wee hours. Other neces-sary arrangements were alsofinalized which include seat-ing arrangements, barricad-ing, stage decoration, securi-ty, medical facility, drinkingwater facility, first aid facili-ty, power supply, sanitation,toilet facility, deployment offire tenders and refreshmentetc.

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