Three Lt. Colonels among 16 Armymen booked for attempt to murder in Jammu and Kashmir
Army lieutenant colonels and others face charges for violent attack on Kupwara police station, sparking investigation and legal action.
#kashmir #kupwara #IndianArmy #JKPolice #TerritorialArmy #militarisation #india
J&K Police FIR Alleges Kupwara Army Unit Abducted Head Constable, Assaulted Four Cops
An official at the Kupwara Police Control Room told The Wire that many police personnel, including the SHO, had their phones either snatched or smashed into pieces by Army soldiers.
#kashmir #kupwara #JKPolice #IndianArmy #IndianArmedForces #militarisation #india
https://thewire.in/rights/jammu-kashmir-kupwara-fir-police-abduction-assault
Long Walk to Freedom Cut Short: A Chronicle Of Kashmir Journalist Aasif Sultan’s Captivity For Over Five Years
More than five years after the J&K police arrested him on terrorism charges, two years after a judge found no prima facie evidence against him, and three months after a judge squashed a detention order against him, Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan remains jailed.
#kashmir #AasifSultan #PressFreedom #JKPolice #UAPA #PSA #DraconianLaws #media #india
Kashmir: Militants Shoot Dead Retired Top Cop Whose Security Detail Was Recently Withdrawn
Mohammad Shafi Mir, who had devoted himself to social service after retirement, was a muezzin at a local mosque in his village.
#kashmir #baramulla #militancy #JKPolice #india
https://thewire.in/security/kashmir-top-cop-mohammad-shafi-mir-shot-dead
‘I Don’t Watch Cricket Anymore’: Kashmiri Youth Booked For Cheering Pak in 2021
Three Kashmiri youths arrested in 2021 for cheering Pakistan's win in cricket tell BOOM how their lives have changed forever.
#kashmir #cricket #UAPA #JKPolice #FreeSpeech #DraconianLaws #HumanRights #india
https://www.boomlive.in/law/india-pakistan-jammu-kashmir-students-cricket-uapa-23739
10 Local Recruits Join Militancy in Jammu & Kashmir in 2023, Out of these, six have already been killed.
#JammuAndKashmir #JKNews #JKPolice #GangaNews
https://www.ganganews.com/india/10-local-recruits-join-militancy-in-jammu-kashmir-in-2023/
J&K: Sea of People Greet Mirwaiz Umar Farooq As He Delivers First Sermon in 4 Years at Jamia Masjid
Days after the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference moved the high court, the J&K Police lifted all curbs against him on Thursday. He was under house arrest for four years.
#kashmir #MirwaizUmarFarooq #APHC #JamiaMasjid #JKPolice #india
‘Hypocrisy, not patriotism’: Military veterans slam Modi govt for celebrations at BJP headquarters
'The celebrations yesterday at BJP headquarters are heartbreaking when they knew about the sacrifices of our bravehearts.'
#kashmir #anantnag #MilitantAttack #IndianArmy #JKPolice #NarendraModi #BJP #elections #ElectionRallies #pulwama #HinduNationalism #hindutva #modi #india
Three Officers Killed in South Kashmir Militant Attack, Security Brass Reach Amidst Search Ops
An Army spokesperson said the killings took place during a joint anti-insurgency operation involving J&K Police and the Army in the intervening night of September 12 and 13.
https://thewire.in/security/south-kashmir-officers-killed-attack
#kashmir #kokernag #militancy #MilitantAttack #IndianArmy #JKPolice #terrorism #india
J&K Police objects to BBC article on Kashmir media situation, says it has right to take legal action
The article titled ‘Any story could be your last – India’s crackdown on Kashmir press’ was published on Friday.
#kashmir #JKPolice #BBC #PressFreedom #media #journalism #AsifSultan #TheKashmirWalla #censorship #UAPA #SIA #DraconianLaws #india
J&K: Principal, teacher booked for thrashing student who wrote ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on school board
The boy has been hospitalised and the police have arrested the teacher. The teacher and the principal have been booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 75 (cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
#kashmir #kathua #HateCrime #ChildAbuse #JKPolice #IPC #law #india
500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution
Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.
#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AbdulAlaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #FCRA #PublicSafetyAct #DraconianLaws #JKPolice #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #NIA #JKSIA #india
‘This opaque censorship is gut-wrenching’: The Kashmir Walla’s website, social media blocked in India
The news website’s editor was first arrested in February last year.
#kashmir #TheKashmirWalla #PressFreedom #ITAct2000 #PublicSafetyAct #meity #JKPolice #FahadShah #SajadGul #facebook #meta #twitter #x #SocialMedia #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #india
In J&K, 11 sent to jail after they did not rise for anthem at police event
Contacted on Wednesday, the Srinagar Senior Superintendent of Police did not respond, and Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar said he would check on it.
#kashmir #srinagar #JKPolice #NationalAnthem #ManojSinha #JKGovernor #governors #india
500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution
Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.
#kashmir #jammu #FahadShah #incarceration #journalism #PressFreedom #censorship #JKpolice #TheKashmirWalla #HumanRights #UAPA #PSA #NIA #SIA #india
J&K: Inquiry Is ‘Official Cover-Up’, Says Family of Man Who Died of Suicide After He Was Summoned
Mukhtar Hussain Shah's family has sought a judicial probe into his death and alleged that the order of the magisterial inquiry was “full of discrepancies” and that the "order reads like an attempt to cover up the truth."
#kashmir #poonch #PoonchAttack #terrorism #JKpolice #torture #suicide #HumanRights #india
Jammu & Kashmir: Iltija Mufti slams CID for getting ‘country-specific’ passport
Former J&K chief minister’s daughter says the government wanted to make an example out of her family ‘so as to stop people from raising their voice’.
#kashmir #IltijaMufti #JKpolice #CID #OfficialSecretsAct #UAE #KiranPatel #UnionGovt #india
'PMO conman' in J&K opens a can of worms
By the time Kiran Bhai was arrested on March 3, he had posed as a PMO official to visit the Line of Control, the snow-packed Gulmarg meadows and the Dal Lake.
#kashmir #security #PMO #LoC #JKpolice #BJP #IPC420 #KiranBhai #india
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/pmo-conman-in-jk-opens-a-can-of-worms/cid/1923283
At A Time Of Economic Distress, J&K Land Eviction Drive Imperils Livelihoods
Traders. Scrap dealerships. Apple farmers. Hoteliers. Hundreds in diverse professions have seen their land—from high, rural pastures to city shopping complexes—seized and properties demolished, after Jammu and Kashmir was reduced to a union territory in August 2019. The rights to many of these lands were provided by previous state governments, some were gifted by erstwhile monarchy, others were encroached.
#kashmir #jammu #LandEviction #evictions #demolitions #displacement #LandGrab #SriNagar #anantnag #SMC #JKgovt #JKpolice #muslims #article370abrogation #HumanRights #CivilRights #india
Army Court Sentences Captain Involved in Amshipora Fake Encounter to Life Imprisonment
The court has held that Captain Bhoopendra Singh, of the Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles then based in South Kashmir’s Shopian district, “exceeded powers vested under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act” during the encounter.
#kashmir #amshipora #rajouri #shopian #AFSPA #FakeEncounters #IndianArmy #62RashtriyaRifles #HumanRights #militarisation #JKpolice #india
