Dr Jitendra holds interaction with Srinagar Corporators New Delhi, Oct 21: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to strengthen grassroots democracy in Jammu and Kashmir. Singh said from the day he took over as the prime minister in 2014, Modi made it clear that he would bring all the peripheral regions of the country like Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast at par with the rest of the country. The minister was interacting […]
HC Notice To Govt On Plea By Family Seeking FIR, Probe Report Into Kin’s ‘Custodial Death’
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir high court has issued notice to the government on a plea by a family from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, seeking a copy of a magisterial enquiry report and filing of FIR into the alleged “custodial death” of their kin in September last year.
A bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey has sought the response by May 12 after hearing advocate Shafaqat Nazir for the family which alleges that their kin, Irfan Ahmad Dar of Sidiq Colony Sopore, was killed in alleged police custody on the night of September 16 last year as against the official version that the 23-year-old’s body was found near a quarry at Tujjar-Sharief after he “escaped taking advantage of the darkness.”