Tuesday March 26, 20194 DISTRICTSThree absconders nabbed

STATE TIMES NEWSSAMBA: Police on Monday arrested three absconders at

Samba and Rajouri districts.

As per the reports, on a reliable sources information

regarding the absconder, a police team of Bari Brahmana

Police Station headed by SI Purab Singh under the supervi-

sion of Inspector Drashan Singh and SDPO Bari Brahmana

Sunil Kesar arrested the absconder from Bari Brahmana

namely Raj Kumar alias Raju son of Som Nath resident of

Jandrah.

The accused was wanted in case vide FIR No. 38/2009

under section 457/380 RPC of Police Station Bari

Brahmana and was evading his arrest for the last 9 years

after commission of crime. Accordingly, the accused was pro-

duced in the Court of Law and warrant issued against him

under 512 CrPC by Additional Munsiff JMIC Samba got

executed and the accused send to Sub- Jail Hiranagar.

Meanwhile, Police also arrested two absconders wanted in

two FIRs in Rajouri and Sunderbani police stations.

Absconder namely Mohammad Farooq son of Mohammad

Ismail resident of Maira Nagrota in Rajouri has been arrest-

ed by a team headed by SHO Rajouri Ajaz Haider under the

supervision of DySP Headquarters Govind Rattan.

He was absconding in case FIR no 163/2004 under sec-

tions 341/323/34 RPC of police station Rajouri and he was

evading his arrest since 2008.

Similarly, Sunderbani police station team under the super-

vision of SDPO Nowshera Brijesh Sharma also arrested one

absconder namely Mohammad Rafi son of Mohammad

Bashir resident of Parat Sunderbani. He has been arrested

and was absconding in case FIR No 66/2018 u/s 188/RPC

of police station Sunderbani. Both the absconders shall be

produced before the court of law.

Notorious criminal detained under PSASTATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA: In order to curtail the activities of hardcore crimi-

nal namely Anwar Choudhary, son of Sardar Mohd resident

of Bagoon, Nud District Samba, who is involved in number

of criminal activities detained under PSA at Samba on

Monday.

As per the details, a special team of Police Station Samba

under the overall supervision of Dr. Koshal Sharma, SSP

Samba and under the supervision of Deepak Digra, DySP

Hqrs Samba headed by Inspr. Shiv Dev Singh, SHO Police

Station Samba was constituted and the arrest of the said

accused person was affected.

He was habitual criminal and has established involvement

in a number of heinous crimes for which a number of FIRs

has been registered in different Police Stations of District

Samba, Jammu and Udhampur which include FIR No.

201/2015 under section 354/323/147 RPC of Police Station

Samba; FIR No. 256/2015 under section 395/420 RPC of

Police Station Nagrota; FIR No. 100/2017 under section

323/336/427 /147/148 RPC of Police Station Nagrota and

FIR No.75/2017 under section 458/354 RPC of PS Chenani

Accordingly, in order to prevent the Anwar from spreading,

expanding, continuing his criminal activities and to prevent

him from disturbing public order, District Police Samba

compiled all the police record of aforsaid criminal, prepared

his dossier and got issued his warrant under Public Safety

Act issued from Deputy Commissioner, Samba to prevent

him from indulging in prejudicial criminal activities and

lodged the said detune in Sub-Jail Hiranagar on Monday

after execution of warrant under PSA issued against him.

Five arrested with 114 kg poppy straw STATE TIMES NEWS

VIJAYPUR: Police on Monday arrested five persons and

recovered approximately 114 kilograms of poppy straw from

their possession in Samba and Udhampur.

As per the details, on a tip off SDPO Vijaypur S. Baleet

Singh constituted a team headed by Inspector Rakesh

Bamba SHO Vijaypur Police Station which along with team

laid Naka on Jammu Pathnakot National Highway near

Raya Morh area of Vijaypur. During the Naka, police inter-

cepted a truck (JK02T- 2581) coming from Kathua, and

recovered 52 kilogram of poppy straw from it.

The driver of the truck namely Prithpal Singh, son of

Chanda Singh, resident of Gagore Vijaypur in District

Samba was arrested and a case vide FIR. 41/2019 under

section 8/15/60 NDPS Act was registered against him at

Police Station Vijaypur.

In a similar incident, during the Naka checking in same

place, police intercepted another truck (JK02AG- 9781)

coming from Kathua. During checking, police recovered 21

kilogram of poppy straw from the cabin of the truck. The

accused driver identified as Nirmaljeet son of Harjeet Singh

resident of Abtal Ramgarh arrested on spot and a case vide

FIR No. 42/2019 under section 8/15 NDPS Act was regis-

tered against him at Police Station Vijaypur.

Meanwhile, Chenani Police also recovered 41 kgs poppy

straw and arrested three persons.

SSP Rajiv Pandey said Udhampur police led by SHO

Parmjeet Singh under the supervision of Dy SP Santokh

Raj, Addl. SP Rajinder Singh Katoch laid a Naka near

Motor Shed on Jammu Kashmir National Highway in

Udhampur and intercepted two trucks (PB05N-9992 and

PB29L-9786). During checking, police recovered 41 kgs

poppy straw from both trucks.

Three smugglers identified as Satnam Singh son of

Darshan Singh resident of Amritsar, Harbanms Singh son

of Prem Singh and Gurdeep Singh son of Sohan Singh both

residents of Ludhina were arrested a case under section 8/15

NDPS Act was registered against them.

Pedestrian nabbed with ChittaSTATE TIMES NEWS

UDHAMPUR: Police on Monday arrested a youth and

recovered 25.5 gms contraband (Chitta) from his possession

at Karal on Jammu Kashmir highway in Udhampur.

According to a report, on a tip off information, a police

party led by SHO Kud under the supervision of Addl. SP

Rajinder Singh Katoch, Dy SP Santokh Raj during check-

ing at Karal Naka on Jammu Kashmir highway in

Udhampur nabbed a pedestrian who was moving towards

Patnitop.

During search police to recovered 25.5 contraband drug

(Chitta) from his possession. The accused identified as

accused as Jeevan Singh, son of Sita Ram, resident of Mall

Road Kud in Udhampur and a case vide FIR No.06/2019

under section 8/21/22 NDPS.

Unidentified body found STATE TIMES NEWS

UDHAMPUR: Police recovered a decomposed body lying

under mysterious circumstances in Tawi near village Siyal

locality in Udhampur.

According to a report, Udhampur police recovered a

decomposed unidentified body of a middle aged person from

Tawi lying in mysterious circumstances in Udhampur and

shifted it to District Hospital Udhampur and kept it in mor-

tuary for identification. A case under section 174 Cr.PC and

investigation is on.

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STATE TIMES NEWS R S PURA: Jugal KishoreSharma, BJP contesting can-didate as well as sittingMember of Parliament BJP(Lok Sabha) Jammu Poonchalong with MLC AshokKhajuria, Former MinisterSham Lal Choudhary andBJP Team tours villagesIndira Nagar, Premnagar,Brijnagar, Miran Sahib,Simbal Morh, Sabzi MandiRS Pura, Dablehar, BiaspurParlah in RS Pura andSuchetgarh constituency.

Jugal Kishore SharmaMember of Parliament enlist-ed the development worksdone in RS Pura andSuchetgarh Constituency andwhile addressing the gather-ing said that only theBharatiya Janata Party hasfulfilled his commitment tothe public and reached eco-nomic weaker class of thesociety. He said that manymajor decisions have beentaken under the Modi

Government and variousWelfare Schemes launched byPrime Minister ShriNarendra Modi.

Jugal Kishore said thatevery class of the society getbenefited though CentrallySponsored Schemes. He saidthat various number ofDevelopment Projects underPradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojna,Central Road Fundsand BADP has been executed

during his tenure. JugalKishore added that 415crores were approved byCentral Government to con-struct individual as well ascommunity base bunkers invillages situated along theIndo-Pak Border.

Jugal said that PM Modihas worked hard to serve hiscountry men and will empow-er his Nation with Abundantdevelopment.He added that

Narendra Modi is the onlyleader who can take countryforward and make India asWorld Power. He appealed themasses to vote for BharatiyaJanata Party and to makeNarendra Modi again asPrime Minister of India.

Ashok Khajuria MLC J&KState and Sham LalChoudhary Former Ministeralong with Ex-VC BhushanDogra, Ex-MLA Gharu RamBhagat also addressed thegathering.

District president BJPBrijeshwar Rana,MandalPresidents Swarn Chib,NathaRam,Ashok Choudhary,Chairman MunicipalCommittee RS Pura Sat PalPappi,Senior Leaders BJPSanjay Mourya,Jai Deep,Ashok Khajuria, HarbhajanSingh Pammy, AshokSharma, Dev Raj Sharma,Pitamber Sharma,CouncillorGurmet Kour Randhawa,Mita Sharma and others werealso accompanied the tour.

Modi set to lead India as world power: Jugal

MP Jugal Kishore Sharma during election campaign at R S Pura.

STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA: Police is organis-ing Cultural festival onMarch 27, 2019 at SportsStadium Kathua. RamnishGupta Addl SP Kathuaalong with Nikhil RasgotraDySP HeadquartersKathua and K.D BhagatDySP DAR Kathua briefedmedia during a press confer-ence.

"Festival will commence at

11:00 am on March 27 inwhich general public is invit-ed to enjoy the moments.Number of food and shop-ping stalls will be the attrac-tion of the Mela.Mesmerizing Cultural per-formances in evening byrenowned folk artists depict-ing flavour of local culturewill be the attraction of theoccasion to make it memo-rable one" SSP said.

Cultural festival at SportsStadium Kathua on March 27

Addl SP Kathua, Ramnish Gupta addressing media persons.

STATE TIMES NEWSKATHUA: Three candidateson Monday filed their nomi-nation for UdhampurParliamentary Constituencyat the office of ReturningOfficer, Kathua.

Vikramaditya Singh filedhis nomination on the man-date of Indian NationalCongress whereas, BahujanSamaj Party fielded T RBhagat as its candidate fromUdhampur Lok Sabha seat.One independent candidate,Mohd. Ayub also filed hisnomination today, RO, RohitKhajuria informed.

Notification for election on5- Udhampur ParliamentaryConstituency was issued on19 March and last date for fil-ing nomination is 26 March.Scrutiny of nominations willbe done on 27 March whereas,nominations can be with-drawn on 29 March, RO,Rohit Khajuria informed andadded that a total of four can-didates were in fray till thisdate for UdhampurParliamentary seat.

"My focus shall be on chang-ing the development profile ofthe constituency with prolificoutreach thus providing

opportunity to each and everyindividual to get the bounty ofprogress in terms of publicinfrastructure, education,healthcare, potable water andelectricity besides makingpeople's life convenientthrough containing everincreasing inflation which isbehind all the miseries of com-mon masses", saidVikramaditya during a briefmedia interaction after filingthe nomination.

He was flanked by support-er, senior party colleagues anda large number of enthusias-tic workers.

Vikramaditya, 2 others file nomination;4 in fray for Udhampur seat

Vikramaditya Singh INC, T.R Bhagat BSP and Mohd. Ayub independentfiling nomination papers at Kathua.

STATE TIMES NEWS RAJOURI: Accompanied bysenior party leaders andworkers BJP MLC VibodhGupta on Monday conduct-ed a series of election meet-ings in various areas ofRajouri including Kheora,Chodninar and Hartal.

During these meetingsVibodh called upon commonmasses specially the local

youth to come out in largenumbers and vote in favourof BJP for peace and pros-perity in the state.

He said that the way inwhich Kashmir-based politi-cal parties are scared of con-testing elections fromJammu clearly shows thatthey all are scared of BJP.Under such circumstancesBJP is the only viable option

for sustained developmentand peace in the state ofJammu and Kashmir.

While launching an attackon NC and PDP, Vibodhsaid that these parties havebeen exploiting people.Instead of coming out andfacing people in Jammuregion now these partieshave resorted to their com-munal tactics, as they arescared to face people inJammu.

Vibodh lashed out at oppo-sition including Congress,NC and PDP for their antipeople and anti developmentpolices. Prominent among otherswho were present on theoccasion included NitishChib, Sehdev Chib, OmPrakash, Rajat Jamwal,Rakesh Kumar, NareshKumar, Amar Singh,Chander Parkash andKrishan Lal.

BJP only solution for peace in J&K: Vibodh

MLC Vibodh Gupta addressing a gathering at Rajouri.

STATE TIMES NEWSARNIA: To encourage borderdwellers to educate theirwards, students ofGovernment HigherSecondary School Treva onMonday launched enrollmentcampaign in Treva village sit-uated on the Zero-Line of theInternational Border (IB).

Today's enrollment cam-paign was part of the enroll-ment drive already launchedin the border areas of Jammudistrict.

Staff members of the schoolalong with students starteddoor to door campaign inTreva village to encouragepeople to enroll their childrenin the government schools.

Principal of the school, R GDogra, while interacting withborder villagers, highlightedimportance of education. Hefurther informed the villagersthat government is providing

free education to the studentsespecially girls.

The people were madeaware about the facilitiesgiven to students in theGovernment schools like freeadmission for girls, freebooks, free uniforms, Midday meal etc.

Important to mention herethat the government hasissued an order to startenrollment drive in differentareas. According to circularissued by Chief EducationOfficers (CEOs) of differentdistrict, Head Masters, ZonalEducation Officers (ZEOs)and Principals have beenasked to depute teachers andmasters of their school locali-ty and responsibility beimposed upon them that eachteacher/master will being tenstudent each for the admis-sion in the new academic ses-sion 2019-20.

Drive launched to enrollstudents in border areas

Four taken intopreventive custody

STATE TIMES NEWSRAJOURI: Police onMonday took four personsinto preventive custody inRajouri for their involve-ment in unlawful activities.

The four persons havebeen identified as Ali Aksarson of Mohammad Sadiqresident of Fathepur,Mohammad Ishtiaq son ofBashir Ahmed resident ofTuli Bana Reasi,Mohammad Zabeer son ofMohammad Sharief resi-dent of UP , at presentSalani and MohammadZaffar son of Hasham resi-dent of UP, at presentSalani.

They have been detainedunder preventive measureunder section 107/151CrPC and on the orders offirst class executive magis-trate and order of detentionwas implemented by a teamheaded by SHO RajouriAjaz Haider.

STATE TIMES NEWSSAMBA: Jammu andKashmir United SchoolTeachers Association holdmeeting at Vijaypur in DistrictSamba on Monday. The meet-ing was held under the leader-ship of Raj Kumar DistrictPresident JKUSTA andGeneral Secretary SanjeevKumar. In the meeting the par-ticipants disclosed that theywill hold protest outside press

Club Jammu on 29 March. The Provincial Head Hari

Singh condemned the govern-ment and said that the teach-ers working in under Rehbar-e-Taleem and Grade did not getfour-five month's salaryAmong other those presentincluding Sunil Thappa, RaviKant, Sham Lal, MadanSingh, Pardeep Singh,Lakvinder Singh and SubashKumar.

JKUSTA demands release of salary

JKUSTA members during the meeting at Samba.

Youth goes missingSTATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: A Jammu-basedyouth identified as AshishSharma (Shaila), resident ofTalab TilloJammu isr e p o r t e d l ymissing sinceMarch 14,2019. The 30years old youth was lastseen at Kunjwani.

The missing report hasbeen lodged in Police StationGangyal. The Gangyal Policeafter taking cognisance ofthe complaint have launchedsearch for tracing out theyouth.

Anybody coming across theabove youth may inform onMob phones 9419115453,9419105836, 9682389368,9419112226, 9906090804,9622305836.

STATE TIMES NEWSPOONCH: Print and elec-tronic media constitutes thefourth pillar of democracyand it has a big and signifi-cant role to play.

This was stated by theSenior Superintendent ofPolice (SSP) PoonchRomesh Angral whileaddressing the maiden

press meet since his arrivalin the border district. Bothprint and electronic mediaincluding President PressAssociation and ReporterAll India Radio, participat-ed in the media interaction.

Claiming that police andpress are closely related,the SSP sought their coop-eration for maintaining

peace and tranquility in thearea.

Inviting their attention inthe ensuing Parliament elec-tions, he said that press'responsibility increases withregard to correctly high-lighting the facts. He askedthe media people not to hidethe truth but at the sametime they should not takecognisance of fake news andrumours. In case of anyproblem or any clarificationrequired, he said that theyare always welcome.

Prominent among otherPolice Officers present inthe meeting include AddlSP Raja Adil Hamid, Dy SPHeadquarter Aijaz Ahmed,Dy SP DAR Sheezan Bhat,Dy SP Operation Dr.Bisham Dubey andInspector Rajnish Kumar.

Role of print & electronic media significant: SSP

SSP Poonch Romesh Angral chairing a meeting.

Army organises lecture on career counseling STATE TIMES NEWS

KISHTWAR: Army undertook initiative of organising a 'lec-ture on Career Counseling by JKEDI' at Chhatru, Kishtwar.The Counseling was targeted towards the youth of Chhatru &far flung areas.

A total of 58 youth and students of the area participated inthe lecture.

Dr Furqan Khan of JKEDI, Kishtwar delivered a lecture inwhich he elaborated various Govt sponsored schemes withregard to self- employment. He also replied to the queriesraised by the participants and advised them to avail the bene-fits of the schemes by establishing their own business units.

STATE TIMES NEWS NOWSHERA: New premis-es of SBI Nowshera branchwas inaugurated bySubhash Joinwal, GeneralManager Network-III,Chandigarh Circle onMonday in the presence ofAbhay Kishore Pandey,Deputy General Manager,J&K Module and SunilSharma, Regional Manager(RBO-III) Jammu.

The new building is spa-cious and as per CorporateCentre's policy on UniformInternal Layout, Elevationand Colour scheme ofbranches. The Branch islocated on main road nearBus Stand Nowshera. GMJoinwal interacted with thepublic and assured thembetter delivery of banking

services. The branch is catering to

all the basic banking trans-actions and also specificneeds of the customers andis offering the entire spec-trum of high tech bankingproducts and financial serv-ices covering retail and con-sumer lending. The branchalso offers various uniqueproducts to its clientelebased on their needs and hasbeen pioneer in introducingvarious products and servic-es in the country. G. L.Sharma, (KPS) S.PNowshera also inauguratedHi-tech e-Lobby on thisoccasion having options ofall types of digital transac-tions in the presence ofBank officials and generalpublic at large.

SBI Nowshera gets new building

General Manager Network-III, Chandigarh, Subhash Joinwaland others during inauguration of building at Nowshera.

Deputation of WPRscalls on DC SambaSTATE TIMES NEWS

SAMBA: A deputation of

West Pakistani Refugees

(WPRs) from village

Pangdour met District

Development Commissioner

(DDC) Samba Sushma

Chouhan regarding non-

clearance of their files.

Large number of WPRs

assembled in DC Office

Complex Samba under the

leadership of Reena

Choudhary Sarpanch

Panchayat Pangdour and

projected their issue

regarding non-clearance of

their files.

Reena said that large

numbers of files have been

lying in the aforesaid

office and in the absence

of proper attention the

same are not being com-

pleted for clearance.

She demanded that a

team of officers be asked

to hold a camp in the vil-

lage for on spot comple-

tion of the documents so

that the compensation to

the tune of Rs 5.50 lakh is

released in favour of the

refugees. She said that

similar camp was held ear-

lier in which several bene-

ficiaries completed their

files.