A father-son duo was injured when a grenade
lobbed by some unidentified militants exploded
outside their shop near Ompora railway station
in Budgam District in the evening of April
13, Police said on April 14, reports Hindustan
Times.
Meanwhile, normal life was paralyzed in the
Pampore area of Pulwama District on April
15 following stone pelting by a group of protesters
on the Police after the latter carried out
nocturnal raids in the town during the past
two days. The protesters on the Srinagar-Jammu
national highway were dispersed by the Security
Forces, Daily Excelsior reported.
The Indian Express reports that the Cyber
Crime Cell of Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed
to have uncovered a network of youths who
used social networking sites to foment trouble
in the State during the last few years. “We
have identified the persons who have been
indulging in trouble mongering over the past
couple of years by using the social networking
sites,” Inspector General of Police (Kashmir
Zone) S M Sahai said. Some of the youths have
already been questioned, but no arrest has
been made so far in the case. Police sources
said investigators had identified 24 persons
who were operating over a dozen “anti-national
pages”. Sources, however, said four youths,
most of them in their early 20s and hailing
from Srinagar city, have been questioned in
this regard till now. They were operating
pages like ‘Freedom of Dawn’, ‘Balai Khuda’,
‘Aalov’ and ‘We love Syed Ali Shah Geelani’
on Facebook, which allegedly supported separatist
agenda and stone-pelting incidents during
the summer unrest of 2010. In fact, these
pages had become reliable sources of information
about incidents during the five months of
unrest that year as Internet users from various
parts of the Valley posted latest events on
these pages, they claimed. Anti-national pages
being operated from abroad, including in UK,
US, Pakistan and the UAE, have been tracked
down.
Further, the Jammu and Kashmir Police is providing
commando training to a selected group of constables,
according to IBN Live. 942 constables
are undergoing the basic training course of
commandos in the Commando Training Centre
at Lethpore in Kashmir Valley, officials of
the centre said on April 15.
Meanwhile, the Dileep Padgaonkar-led panel
of Interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir has
supported the proposals to repeal or amend
the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)
and suggested that Defence Ministry should
respond positively to the issue rather than
negatively. The panel has also recommended
the framing of a Judicial Commission for identification
of all the bodies in the unmarked graves in
the State of Jammu and Kashmir. About the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
proposed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,
the report said, "even if justice cannot
be provided for all victims of violence, if
some of those guilty of human rights abuses,
including militants, were to ask forgiveness
from the families of their victims, it would
provide closure for many". |
