8 Including 4 Sarpanchs Booked For Demanding Road Connectivity
SRINAGAR: At least eight persons including four sarpanchs and a government teacher have been booked in Bhaderwah for staging a protest to demand road connectivity to their respective villages during an official visit of Farooq Khan, advisor to LG Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday.
Several locals of various panchayats of Bhaderwah had assembled on Bhaderwah-Pul Doda road and blocked the road, demanding road connectivity to their panchayats.
Quoting an official the news agency KNO reported that they have been booked under Epidemic Disease Act 1997 for violating Covid-19 restrictions imposed in the district.
He said the several locals of various panchayats of Bhaderwah had assembled on Bhaderwah-Pul Doda road and blocked the road, demanding road connectivity to their panchayats.
SRINAGAR: A 32-year-old man allegedly dies by suicide in Ajas Bazipora area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a 19-year-old boy in Khawas village of Rajouri district.
Quoting police statement news agency KNO reported that one person namely Balvinder Singh (19) son of Suraj Ram, resident of Keri, Khawas was attacked by two persons in which he received injuries and subsequently died.
It said that the accused after committing the crime had fled from the spot.
As per the statement, several police parties were immediately deputed to search for and arrest the accused. “Acting promptly and professionally, police party led by SHO Budhal Mushtak Ahmed and in charge PP Khawas, SI Sudershan successfully tracked and arrested the accused within few hours of the commission of the offence.”
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SRINAGAR: India's Covid cases continued to witness a decline as it recorded 80,834 new Covid cases, the lowest since April 1 and 3,303 deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Sunday.