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PHARMA C&F AGENTS WHO IS SHIELDING ‘RAPIST’
CHARGE TORRENT & ELDER BISHOP
PHARMA WITH MULTI- Forget police, even RESIGNATION VIDEOS WORRY J&K POLICE
CRORE FRAUD, CHEATING Church has refused to
C&F agents based in take action, rendering
different parts of the its credibility to doubt.
country allege that It should come clean or y name is • Force quit Public dissociation
their legitimate dues of else followers would stop Nawaz Ahmad The State Police is staring at desertions in its ranks from the police isn’t same as
about 45 cr have not believing in religious Lone, resident as militants attack local cops and their families, officially quitting from the force
been paid by Torrent institutions. Moment of of Kulgam. I reports RIYAZ WANI
Pharmaceuticals Limited, Truth for Catholic Church, M was working
writes Charanjit Ahuja notes Charanjit Ahuja as an SPO, I am resigning of sociation from the police isn’t to the alleged harassment of koo said in a recent video.
my own free will, not because same as officially quitting the militant families by the But, as a senior police
of any compulsion,” said one from the force and is unlikely security forces. In August officer said, the new mili-
Special Police Officer (SPO) to be accepted as resignation. the police released tant tactics have blurred a
in a video which went viral But this hardly detracts 11 family members of Kash- red-line that has tradition-
LGBTQ CELEBRATES AS INDIA MADRASA EXPERIENCE in Kashmir ever since the from the egregious security miri militants in return for ally been respected by all the
BIDS ADIEU TO SECTION 377 HELP MUSLIM GIRLS militants killed three SPOs challenge at hand. The SPOs the militants freeing an equal sides in the conflict so far,
In a landmark judgment, EXPAND HORIZON in South Kashmir district of are adhoc police men who number of relatives even by the pro-government
the Supreme Court of Dr Borker tells Humra Shopian. More such vid- are paid a monthly salary of of policemen taken cap- militia Ikhwanul Muslimoon
India on September Quraishi in an interview eos are doing rounds of the 6,000. Over the years they tive by them in revenge in the mid-nineties. The
6, 2018, scrapped the how many Muslim girls Valley’s social media space have assumed a lynchpin abductions. transgressions have been
and this has created a crisis
fewer and far between. For
Up until now as part of a
role in the state’s fight against
Section 377 of the find their educational of great magnitude for the militancy. According to an tacit code, the militants and example, when in the nine-
IPC that criminalised and aspirational Jammu and Kashmir Police. estimate there are more than the police men didn’t harm ties, the pro-government
homosexuality, reports horizons expanded as On September 21, around 30,000 SPOs working in the each other’s families. But insurgents were killed by
Shubhangi Singh a result of the madrasa seven police personnel state, 10,000 of whom were over the past year as the mili- separatist militants, they
experience. gathered at a mosque in recruited in 2016 in the wake tancy gained more strength, would occasionally kill the
Reshipora, Awantipora and of the five month long unrest both sides have revised this members of their families in
declared their dissociation that led to the killing of mutually accepted rule of retaliation.
from the police. Their letters around hundred persons and engagement. Militants have Police and the militants,
of resignations were that was blinding of several hundred. justified the attacks on police on the other hand, would
read out by a preacher at the With militants targeting men and their families as a rather stay away from one
PU SHOWS FRAILTY THY COVER: BIG OR SMALL, mosque. A total of 18 SPOs them and their families, the retaliation to the police raids another’s families, knowing
NAME IS NOT WOMAN! RUPEE FALL HURTS ALL have declared their resigna- strategy seems to be to try at their houses and those of well it was an arena where
both were vulnerable. The
their sympathisers.
and trigger desertions and
tion from various platforms.
At Panjab University, The Indian currency, However, police was quick deprive the state’s police Hizbul Mujahideen com- rule has largely also been
a girl candidate, which has been sliding to deny that the policemen force of their services. And mander Riyaz Naikoo has observed by the Army and
Kanupriya has proved against the US dollar in had resigned. The Director a spate of declaration of warned the local police men the paramilitary forces. But
that frailty thy name recent days, has become General of Police Dilbagh resignations of the police that their families will be no longer. This smudging
in not woman, writes one of Asia’s worst Singh, ADGP Muneer Khan men posted on social media targeted if they continued to of the redlines threatens to
Charanjit Ahuja performers after losing and IG, Kashmir SP Pani have underlines that the strategy harass the families of mili- plunge the Valley deeper
has begun to pay off — albeit
into turmoil. And the gov-
in their respective state-
tants. “Our families are only
around 12 per cent of its ments termed the videos as the impact so far is limited to few hundreds in number, but ernment by following an
value this year, writes “propaganda” and asserted South Kashmir, the hotbed of yours are in thousands. We exclusively security centric
Bharat Hiteshi that the morale of J&K Police new age militancy. are ready to sacrifice in the approach is hardly helping
was high. Attacking the low-level way of our cause, so won’t be the matters.
And, technically speaking, police officials and their cowed down but what about
they were right. Public dis- families followed in response you and your families,” Nai- LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM
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