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CBI submits status report in sex-racket case 4 militants gunned down Geelani flays Pakistan over dialogue with India
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CBI submits status report in sex-racket case
Srinagar, June 26 The report was submitted in a sealed cover to a division bench, comprising Justice Bashir Ahmed Kirmani and Justice Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain, by Assistant Solicitor General of India and CBI counsel Shabir A. Naik. The CBI will again submit a status report on June 28 and the High Court would hear the sex racket case on June 30. Earlier on June 23, the High Court had taken strong notice of the allegations that some highly-placed people in politics, police and administration are hindering the investigations into the sex racket case and directed the CBI to seek their immediate transfer from their present positions. In its orders, the bench said during submissions, the petitioners (Kashmir Bar Association) have alleged that the involvement of highly-placed people from politics, administration and police was perhaps hindering the pace of investigations and reportedly some of them were using their official positions to threaten the witnesses and the victims. It said the court, if required, would also examine the advisability of assessing the level of accusations and the requisite action in each case and then pass the appropriate orders. The court said perusal of the case diaries also reveal that some of the arrested officers have been lodged in the Central Jail here. In view of the fact that other inmates of different hues were also lodged in the Central Jail, the bench directed that all requisite precautions be taken for assuring safety of the accused persons and officers arrested in connection with sex racket case. Requisite steps for their medicare should also be taken wherever sought, it added. The court said the Social Welfare Department Director who was summoned under the previous order has been asked to prepare a comprehensive rehabilitation programme for victims in the case He has undertaken to do the same and furnish the requisite report within one week from now, the bench ordered. It also directed the administrative head of the Psychiatric Disease Hospital, Srinagar to be present in the court on the next date of hearing to give details of the rehabilitation programme. The CBI produced the case diaries till date, which indicated that some more partial statements have been recorded and the requisite follow up procedural action in case of arrested people taken. “After hearing both the sides and reiterating the earlier orders passed in the matter, we further direct the CBI to continue the investigation more speedily and take effective steps in furtherance of the probe, including lawful custodial interrogation of all the accused,” the court said. After going through case diaries, the bench had observed that the CBI would be at liberty to conduct custodial interrogation of all the accused. It also asked the CBI to take due care about the safety of the victims and the witnesses in case the agency filed preliminary charge-sheet in the case. The court also called for preventing unverified allegations and information from being misused in any manner.— UNI
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4 militants gunned down
Srinagar, June 26 He said security forces guarding the northern sector noticed a group of infiltrators sneaking into this side from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the Machil sector of Kupwara district late last night. When challenged and asked to surrender near the Line of Control (LoC) on this side, militants opened fire and in the ensuing gunfight, four intruders were killed. However, official sources said the slain militants were part of a 14-member group which had infiltrated from PoK. They said a massive hunt has been launched in the nearby woods to nab the remaining infiltrators. More than 20 infiltrators were killed by the security forces in northern Kashmir immediately after they sneaked into this side from PoK once the snow started melting on the upper reaches. Officials said more than 2000 militants, majority of them Kashmiris, were waiting at the launch pads near the LoC to cross over to the Indian side. Militants also made several attempts to smuggle in arms and ammunition from across the border. However, due to tight security measures, they (militants) had dumped the arms and ammunition near the border in specially-built hideouts. However, alert security forces busted a number of such hideouts and recovered war like stores, comprising assault rifles, hundreds of grenades, rockets, explosive material, including RDX. The spokesman said militants entered the house of Manzoor Ahmad Rather at Arin Bandipora in north Kashmir and kidnapped him last night. However, his body was recovered this morning from the Bandipora market. Militants shot at and wounded Ghulam Hassan Bhat at the main market in Bandipora this afternoon. He was shifted to a hospital where he died. A security personnel was wounded when militants attacked a patrol party at Bader Kali Temple in Handwara area of Kupwara district. Security forces also returned the fire, but the militants managed to escape under the cover of darkness. Troops busted a militant hideout at Niboch in Mahore area of Udhampur district in Jammu region and seized one pistol,two magazines and 46 rounds.
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Geelani flays Pakistan over dialogue with India
Srinagar, June 26 Addressing a press conference here, Mr Geelani asked the Pakistani leadership to “rethink and reconsider” their policy of dialogue process with India. “I want to tell the Pakistani leadership in clear terms that you started a dialogue process with India in January 2004 and have repeatedly admitted that there is no progress vis-a-vis the resolution of the Kashmir issue,” he added. “So there is a need to rethink and reconsider that policy. The continuation of the dialogue process with India amounts to applying salt on the wounds of innocent and suppressed Kashmiris,” said Mr Geelani, who headed the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference. Meanwhile, the Jamaat-e-Islami set a precondition for the suspended leader to seek re-entry into the organisation, asking him to disband the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat by June 30. The Jamaat-e-Islami suspended Mr Geelani and his close associates Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mohammad Abdullah Sheikh and Shah Wali Mohammad from its Majlis-e-Shoura (Advisory Council), the highest decision-making body, on June 15 last year for floating the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat in August 2004. They were replaced by Ghulam Rasool Bhat, Ghulam Rasool Shah and Peer Gias-ud-din. In an extraordinary meeting of its 97-member electoral college here, the Jamaat-e-Islami discussed threadbare the issue of re-entry of Mr Geelani, also the breakaway Hurriyat Conference Chairman, and his associates. The meeting told them to disassociate with the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat by June 30 so that they could seek re-entry into the organisation. “If Mr Geelani and others fail to do so, they will not be eligible to contest on any post in the organisation,” a Jamaat-e-Islami press note said here today. The organisational elections, including to the post of Amir-e- Jamaat, were scheduled to be held in August, when the term of incumbent Maulana Nazir Ahmed Kashani would end.
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Two more yatris die
Srinagar, June 26 Haldankar Madhukar, 62, from Pune in Maharashtra died yesterday at Sheshnag on the Pahalgam route to the cave shrine located at an altitude of 3,880 metres, they said. Gujarat resident Teetha Kanth, who had been admitted to the Soura Medical Institute here, died this morning, the officials said. They said the 35-year old woman was admitted to the hospital yestarday after she fell seriously ill en route to the cave through the Baltal route.
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