In more trouble for former Health Minister Shabir Khan, the Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker on Monday gave his nod to police for the members of arrest on molestation charges, saying they should act according to law.
After a series of raids by the National Investigative Agency on kashmiri separatists over the last two days, the authorities today prevented separatists from holding a meeting at residence of hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani, placing several leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest.
The wife of alleged conman Kiran Patel, who was held in Jammu and Kashmir for posing as a top official in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), was arrested on Tuesday for trying to usurp a senior citizen's bungalow in Ahmedabad, officials said.
The police asked Kher to return to Delhi as there were apprehensions of law and order problems.
'There is a trust deficit between Delhi and Srinagar. It is there even today.'
The suspended Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, following a narcotic haul from a PoK truck early this month is set to resume on Monday.
'I've been illegally detained yet again. Since two days, J-K admin has refused to allow me to visit @parawahid's family in Pulwama. BJP Ministers and their puppets are allowed to move around in every corner of Kashmir but security is a problem only in my case,' Mufti tweeted in English and Urdu.
The government imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC in Srinagar district.
The re-opening of the state government offices in Srinagar after the annual Darbar Move was marked by citywide shutdown and protests.
A militant belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Srinagar on Friday evening, official sources said. Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested LeT militant Gowhar Ali Ganie, a resident of Koil Pulwama at Dalgate area in Srinagar.One Chinese pistol with a magazine and four rounds were recovered from his possession.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached 17 properties of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali in a terror funding case, the agency said.
Geelani's supporters were demonstrating in front of his house in Srinagar to protest his house arrest.
3 terrorists -- two from the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and one from the Hizbul Mujahideen -- were arrested over the past three days.
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yaseen Malik and social activist Swami Agnivesh were on Saturday detained when they tried to lead a march towards Narbal in central Kashmir's Budgam district where a youth was killed in firing by security forces during a protest.
The pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik went on a day-long hunger strike in Srinagar on Saturday to protest against the arrest of youth, including students, by the state police.
He had even visited the last post at Uri in north Kashmir, posing for pictures at a bridge treated as a Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
He said 100 youths joined terrorism in J-K this year, which is also the lowest in many years.
Kumar also said in the last three years, the Jaish-e-Mohammed has been "wiped out" in the Kashmir Valley. Only seven to eight terrorists are active now, he said.
Spokesperson for the Jammu and Kashmir administration Rohit Kansal said there is no question of lying in the apex court and reiterated the stand that Soz is a free man.
Khan was arrested on Tuesday in the case, sparking massive country-wide protests by his supporters.
Abdullah, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, is the first Jammu and Kashmir chief minister to be booked under the PSA.
Sajjad Ahmed Khan, 27, a resident of Pulwama is also suspected to be involved in the conspiracy of Pulwama attacks.
He was arrested while he was demonstrating against the Kashmir policy of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Later, the Central Bureau of Investigation took over the probe and found that the two women were never raped or murdered.
Officials said that 22-year-old Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner and resident of Hajibal, Kakapora in Pulwama, had provided shelter and other logistical assistance to suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar.
Official sources said the first one was the truck driver who drove them to Samroli in Udhampur from Kulgam and other one was a bakery owner at Pulwama.
Gazi Misbah-ud-Din, the operational commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and Muzaffar Ahmad alias Tajamul, divisional commander of the outfit were arrested over the past two days.
She was cremated on the banks of the Alaknanda at Shrinagar around 6.30 pm in the presence of commissioner, Garhwal, Sushil Kumar and Pauri district magistrate Vijay Kumar Jogdande.
During questioning it emerged that Singh had taken them to Jammu in 2019 also, the officials said.
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service suspended over arrest of Pakistani truck driver carrying contraband.
Sudipto Sen, chairman of the Saradha chit fund company, which has allegedly defrauded thousands of depositors, was arrested along with two other company officials in Kashmir Valley
The ongoing crackdown on Khalistan supporters has brought to light a questionable delay in revoking arms licences granted to the armed guards of radical preacher Amritpal Singh in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Thursday placed under house arrest, a day ahead of his scheduled visit to Tral town in south Kashmir Pulwama district.
Makki and other LeT/JUD operatives "have been involved in raising funds, recruiting and radicalising youth to violence and planning attacks in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)," the sanctions committee said, providing a statement for the reasons of Makki's listing.
The PhD scholar is an active member of Jamiat-e-Talaba, the student wing of banned Jammat-e-Islami (JeI).
Shah was arrested on July 25, 2017 with six others, facing trial in an alleged terror funding case probed by the NIA.
Terrorist Adil Wani's father and three brothers were arrested for sheltering him.
Earlier in June this year, his another son, Shahid, who was working in the agricultural department of the Jammu and Kashmir government, was arrested in the same case.
The National Investigation Agency conducted searches at nearly a dozen places linked to The Resistance Front terror group in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, days after its announced cash rewards of Rs 10 lakh each on information leading to the arrest of its four cadres.
Andrabi, the founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an Islamist separatist organisation is also a member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
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