{"id":298497,"date":"2018-06-08T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298497"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:19:41","slug":"government-to-withdraw-stone-pelting-cases-against-minors-in-kashmir-says-rajnath-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-to-withdraw-stone-pelting-cases-against-minors-in-kashmir-says-rajnath-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Government To Withdraw Stone-Pelting Cases Against Minors In Kashmir, Says Rajnath Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On a two day visit to Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on June 7, said that the government will withdraw stone-pelting cases against minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Keeping in mind the importance of Ramadan in the state, a decision on extending the ongoing suspension of anti-militancy operations will be taken after reviewing the situation in the state, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2017, the Union Home Ministry had ordered to withdraw cases against youths who are involved in stone pelting in the Valley. Singh also appealed to the youth not to follow the path of destruction and added that the government wants youth to get involved in sports activities and even lauded the state government&#8217;s efforts for improving the sports infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFunds will be provided for promotion of water sports at Mansar and Pahalgam\u2026 Funds will be arranged for development of sports infrastructure,\u201d Singh said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh also unveiled a list of projects related to creating ample job opportunities in different sectors to attract youth. He further added this will help \u201cchange the fate and face of Kashmir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh said, &#8220;Many kids from here are in international sports&#8230; more than 85 kids (from the state) are gold medalists.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cWe will help the youth to be recruited in armed forces. The centre will help the youth of J&amp;K in finding their way. But I appeal to the young generation of the state to not indulge in any kind of wrongdoings,&#8221; Singh added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also added that the government is ready to hold dialogue with all &#8220;right-minded&#8221; people in the state to bring peace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a two day visit to Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on June 7, said that the government will withdraw stone-pelting cases against minors. Keeping in mind the importance of Ramadan in the state, a decision on extending the ongoing suspension of anti-militancy operations will be taken after reviewing the situation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,36,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[1320,1141,2137,2138,2139,1619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299659,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298497\/revisions\/299659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}