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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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