A worker from Punjab who was injured in Wednesday's terror attack in Srinagar's Habba Kadal area died at the SKIMS hospital in Srinagar on Thursday morning, taking the toll to two in the first targeted killing of the year by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir police would now be investigating both rape and murder of the two south Kashmir women, even as the state government shifted the district police chief of Shopian on Wednesday evening.
The Jammu and Kashmir police has constituted a three-member special team to investigate the alleged rape and murder of 17-year old Asiya Jan and her 22-year old sister-in-law Neelofar Jan in Shopian.
The junior Abdullah would be banking heavily on Shia support as the constituency has many Shia dominated areas that include Budgam, Beerwah, Pattan, Sonawari and Bandipora, among other pockets.
Sitharaman told the chief minister that she would seek a detailed report in connection with the incident.
Among the keenly watched contests are those involving former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav (Kannauj, UP) and Union ministers Giriraj Singh (Begusarai, Bihar), Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur, Bihar) and Raosaheb Danve (Jalna, Maharashtra).
Ram Sagar were killed in a grenade attack by terrorists while they were asleep in their rented accommodation in Shopian.
A firefight ensued after security forces landed a cordon and search operation in the Wanigam Payeen Kreeri area of Baramulla acting on specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists at the location.
Imran Bashir Ganai was arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of two labourers at Harmain in Shopian district in the early hours of Tuesday.
While observing that it was the prerogative of the state government to transfer the investigations into the Shopian rape and murder case to any agency it deemed fit, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing of the case till next week.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to arraign the four suspended police officers as accused for destruction, dissipation and suppression of evidence in the rape and murder of two young women in south Kashmir's town of Shopian on May 30.
Refusing to accept the tribunal's decision, the families said they would take the matter to a higher court, seeking justice for their sons and hoping to unmask the truth behind the fateful encounter.
A 12-member team of the Criminal Bureau of Investigation is arriving in Srinagar on Thursday to take over the investigation of the infamous Shopian rape and murder case.
42-year-old Mohammad Hussain Zargar, had gone missing on last Saturday and his body was discovered on Tuesday evening in mysterious circumstances in an orchard by the local police who immediately took it to the local hospital and surrounded the area.
Home Minister P Chidambaram termed as "bizarre" the rejection of the CBI report on the death of two women in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir and said any pre-disposition in favour of a particular conclusion was not the way to go about a professional probe.
The Special Investigation Team probing the rape and murder of two young women in south Kashmir's Shopian announced a cash reward of Rs 20 lakh for 'any information leading to the arrest of the culprits involved in the heinous crime,' on Saturday.
Suspected militants fired grenade and opened fire at a police camp in Shopian township of South Kashmir on Tuesday killing a police officer and injuring three others, making it a major offensive in the town that had just returned to normalcy after weeks of unrest following the alleged rape and murder of two women in May.
After two men -- who were working Kashmir -- were murdered by terrorists in Shopian district, south Kashmir, the security machinery in the Valley commenced the difficult business of tracking down the killers.
The Central Bureau of Investigation submitted its final report in the Shopian rape and murder case, to the division bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High court, which is monitoring the case.
Hearing the Public Interest Litigation to which the Kashmir bar association is a party, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir ordered that 'the CBI should not divulge information pertaining to the investigation into the Shopian rape and murder case to the press'.
The report submitted to the Principal Secretary (Home) on Wednesday night did not come to a conclusion whether and how the two women were murdered, they said.
A local 'hybrid terrorist' of proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was arrested for the attack during a search and cordon operation, police said.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the narco-analysis tests of the police officers arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam posted the petition filed by the officers challenging a Jammu and Kashmir High Court order on Friday. It also issued a notice to the Jammu and Kashmir government.
There are always attempts from across the border to push in more terrorists before the onset of winter and closure of tracks due to heavy snowfall, but the security forces are alert and would foil any infiltration bids, Border Security Force Director General Nitin Agrawal said in Srinagar Thursday.
The apex court directed the state government not to take any coercive steps against army officials.
The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were planning to attack an Indian Army Agniveer recruitment rally.
The Jammu and Kashmir high court has rejected Central Bureau of Investigation's plea to close the Shopian case involving death of two women in controversial circumstances and directed it to file an affidavit on polygraph tests conducted on six persons, including four policemen, on directions of the court.
In order to address public outrage and anger over the alleged rape and murder of two young women in Shopian town of south Kashmir, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday evening reiterated his government's commitment to 'dig out the truth'.
A Kashmiri Pandit himself, Kaul feels, it is time now for the people to move forward, after more than 30 years of unbridled violence.
The incident took place at Tumchi Nowpora of Pulwama district in South Kashmir when the labourer, Mukesh Kumar, was in the market to buy some vegetables.
According to officials in the know of the development, the findings of a Court of Inquiry and his conviction and sentencing were confirmed by the higher Army authorities on November 11 as required under the law.
Terrorists have stepped up attacks in the Kashmir valley over the past week.
The Jammu and Kashmir high court has said that it had not imposed any ban on media coverage of the Shopian case involving the alleged rape-cum-murder of two women, and added that it would continue to monitor the case until "such time the mystery is resolved".
Terrorist Adil Wani's father and three brothers were arrested for sheltering him.
Kashmir police chief Vijay Kumar has directed personnel to apprehend those responsible for the attack as soon as possible.
The 22-year-old secured 319 marks out of 500 in the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, the result for which were declared on Friday.
The agency said it has found several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data during the searches.
The tribunal also granted conditional bail to Captain Bhoopendra Singh and directed him to appear before its principal registrar at a regular interval starting from January next year.
While two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were killed in Shopian district, two Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind ultras were gunned down in Pulwama district in south Kashmir.
The search operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists fired upon the security forces who retaliated, he said.
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