Srinagar, January 20: An Indian army’s Lance Naik committed suicide by shooting himself in Kupwara district, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Indian army’s Lance Naik Shiv Kumar man ended life by shooting his head with his service rifle in inside camp in Bagatora Handwara area of the district.
When Indian troops heard some gunshots inside camp rushed to the spot to ascertain the facts, they found a sentry in a pool of blood with a head injury. He was taken to Sub District Hospital Handwara where doctors declared him dead.
This incident raised the number of such deaths amongst Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 561 since January 2007 till date.
Hundreds of people holds protest against land eviction order in Ramban
Srinagar, January 20: Hundreds of people staged a protest demonstration in Ramban district against the BJP regime’s decision to evict people from their land, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The protesters marched to DC office and handed over the memorandum to DC Ramban.
The memorandum to local authorities, demanding revocation of the eviction order.
The protestors said that the BJP regime’s decision to evict people from their land is hurting thousands of families and will render them homeless in these harsh winters. Our protest will continue as long as the order is not revoked.
Democratic Azad Party leader G.M.Saroori who led the protest said the aim of laws is the welfare of common people but the newly imposed laws by Modi regime are framed to disempower people. He said the elections shall be immediately held so that Jammu Kashmir will have an elected government. “How long they will leave us at the mercy of bureaucrats. It has been more than five years we are without a government. We shall not allow these officers to decide our fate,” he added.
“Our voices will be for people and we will not sit aside and let the people suffer. We stand united against this anti people land eviction order,” he further said.
Another leader, Salman Nizami said, the elected governments have only the mandate to frame the public policies but our territory is denied of this constitutional right and a bunch of officers are empowered to write our fate.
Pertinently, the Hindutva BJP-RSS fascist Indian government and its regime in IIOJK have intensified the ongoing eviction campaign in all districts of IIOJK to grab the land of Kashmiri Muslims, which has been in their possession for generations. The Indian occupation authorities along with Indian Army and agencies are snatching the Kashmiris’ land in the name of a so-called anti-encroachment drive. Lakhs of kanals of land of locals in all districts of Kashmir valley and Muslim areas of the Jammu region have been snatched by BJP regime from the Kashmiris so far.
Delhi HC Dismisses DeM’s Plea against ‘banned Tag’
New Delhi, Jan 20 : The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a plea by the Kashmiri women organization, Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) challenging the Modi government’s decision to declare it a terrorist organisation’ under the black law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Justice Anish Dayal said an alternative remedy prescribed under the statutes is available to the organisation by which the outfit led by the jailed Kashmiri women leader and chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) Asiya Andrabi could file an application and approach theIndian government led by Modi to remove its name from the schedule declaring it a so-called banned organisation’.
Asiya Andrabi along with party member Naheeda Nasreen and Fahmeeda Sofi were arrested in 2018 by the India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency (NIA) on fake cases what Indian government claim including sedition, waging war against the India under black law UAPA while Asiya Andrabi and its party is demanding right to self determinations and peacefully political solution of Kashmir as per UN resolutions.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat (daughters of the nation) was declared a banned organisation in 2004 and the petition was filed in the high court challenging the decision in 2022. agencies
The DeM said it got to know about the party having been declared a banned organisation’ only in 2018 when charge sheets were filed in the court against its members.
The Indian government’s counsel contended it is the prerogative of the government to decide who is a terrorist and who is not and added that though DeM was declared a terrorist organisation in 2004 it chose to come to the court only in 2022.
The high court said the UAPA provides for filing of an application before the government seeking removal of an organisation’s name from the schedule.
The counsel for DeM told the court that no such application had been filed.
The party, in its plea, sought a direction to the New Delhi to provide a copy of the December 30, 2004 notification “banning” it or a “notification by which it has been declared to be a terrorist organisation”.