LAST PAGE...P.8 TUESDAY C AUGUST-2020 KASHMIR M 23 Y SRINAGAR TODAY : PARTLY CLOUDY Contact 18 : -0194-2502327 K FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 32°c SUNSET Today 07:14 PM Minmum : 21°c SUNRISE Humidity : 58% Tommrow 05:55 AM 27 Zilhijjat-ul-Haraaml | 1441 Hijri | Vol: 23 | Issue: 178 | Pages: 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 Digest Another Accused Held In Blasphemy Video Case News Chenab Valley Shuts Down, IED Diffused In 4 Security Men, 3 Militants Protesters Block Kashmir Highway Pulwama Press Trust Of India remarks against Prophet of Islam Srinagar- A major tragedy was (Pbuh) went viral on Sunday. averted after Police and security JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir po- A case has been lodged under forces recovered an IED in South Killed In Twin Kreeri Encounters lice has arrested the third accused section 153A IPC (promoting en- Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday late night. A senior police in connection with a communally mity between different groups) and officer said that IED was planted by sensitive video which had gone vi- 295A IPC (deliberate and malicious militants under a bridge near Tujan Lashkar’s Top Commander Among Slain Militants ral on social media, triggering pro- acts, intended to outrage religious village in Pulwama district, reported tests and shutdown in Chenab val- feelings of any class by insulting its news agency GNS The officer said ley region on Monday, officials said. religion or religious beliefs) at Pacca the bridge is between Tujan and Dal- Haider’s Killing A CRPF ASI Hurt In The overall law and order situa- Danga police station. wan. By the timely recovery of the tion in the entire Jammu region is Taking note of the incident, In- IED, a major tragedy was averted, Big Success: DGP Kulgam Attack under control, they said. spector General of Police, Jammu, the officer added. irector General of Police n a late evening attack Religious leaders and prominent cit- Mukesh Singh had on Sunday J&K Dilbagh Singh on militants made an attempt izens from all communities on Sunday warned people against sharing the to attack a Central Reserve 5 More COVID-19 DMonday termed the I took to social media to request people video and said strict action will be killing of Sajad alias Haider as Police Force (CRPF) camp in to maintain communal harmony. taken against the guilty. Deaths In Ladakh a ‘big success’ for the state Kulgam in South Kashmir on Leh: Five more patients died of forces saying that the most Monday. A sub-inspector of Rohit Sharma, a resident of Pacca "My appeal to the people is not to coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the wanted Lashkar commander CRPF was injured in the attack, Danga locality, is the third accused circulate such videos which cause death toll due to the disease in the was luring youth to militancy initial reports said. arrested in connection with the case harm to brotherhood and communal union territory to 14, officials said by releasing video messages. Unidentified militants on related to the communally sensitive harmony in the society. It is not good on Monday. Kargil district recorded “He was like Burhan Wani and Monday evening opened indis- video, a police official said. for all of us," he had said. four new deaths, while one CO- had joined militancy in the criminate fire towards a CRPF Earlier, the main accused Satpal "If we find anybody deliberately VID-19 patient breathed his last in winters of 2016. Like Burhan, camp in Nehama area of the Sharma and his associate Deepak sharing the video, we will take strict Leh, the officials said. Sajad too would lure P-02 district, officials said. P-02 were arrested in the city soon after action against him," he had said. So far, Kargil has reported eight File Pic the video containing derogatory In view of the incident, PAGE 02 deaths due to the disease and Observer News Service criminate fire upon joint team of for treatment. However, they suc- militants, including the outfit’s Leh six. As of Sunday evening, the CRPF and police when they were cumbed to their injuries. commander were killed. Two sol- number of cases in Ladakh stood at SRINAGAR: Two Central Reserve establishing a ‘naka’ in Kreeri The militants, he told Kashmir Ob- diers were also injured in the ex- MY APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE IS NOT TO 1,948, of which 1,005 P-02 Police Force (CRPF) personnel, area of the district, a police of- server managed to escape from the change of fire. circulate such videos which cause harm to brotherhood and an army soldier and a J&K po- ficial said. In the initial exchange orchard after carrying out the attack. One of the soldiers, according "communal harmony in the society. It is not good for all of us," Man Found Dead Near lice man were killed on Monday of fire, a special police official Shortly after the shootout, addi- to news agency GNS succumbed GB Pant Hospital in two back to back encounters (SPO) identified as Muzzafar Ali tional reinforcements of police, army to his injuries. Srinagar: A middle-aged man in north Kashmir’s Baramulla Dar of Pattan was killed and two and CRPF rushed to the spot and laid Official sources identified the MMU Demands Exemplary was found dead near the GB Pant district in which three Lashkar CRPF personnel of 119 battalion a cordon around the orchard. The slain as Sajad alias Haider, Inayat militants, including the outfit’s critically wounded. joint team came under heavy fire Ahmad Mir of Andergam Pattan Punishment For Culprits hospital here in this capital city utahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), an amalgam of clerics led on Monday. The locals spotted commander Sajad alias Haider The injured paramilitary men when they launched combing op- and a foreign militant Usman by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on Monday demanded strict action the body of the middle-aged man was also killed. identified as constables Lokesh erations to flush out militants. from Pakistani. Magainst the members of a extremist Hindu group in Jammu’s near the hospital and accordingly Around 9:15 am, a group of Sharma and Khurshid Khan were In the exchange of fire that con- The GNS reported further said Reasi, which has made blasphemous remarks against Prophet of contacted concerned police sta- armed militants opened indis- removed to the nearby hospital tinued till evening, three Lashkar that the state forces PAGE 02 Islam (Pbuh). tion, a police officer said. Taking strong note of the blasphemous remarks made by the mem- Later a police team reached the bers of Sentinel Bharat Raksha Manch, an MMU spokesperson said spot and retrieved the body. The THREE MILITANTS CAME THROUGH AN APPLE ORCHARD AND FIRED indiscriminately at today that some zealots were making a deliberate attempt to hurt deceased has been identified as a CRPF and police when a naka was being laid. In the attack, two CRPF jawans and a policeman died,” Inspector General the sentiments of Muslims across the world. “It is extremely unfor- resident of Saraibal who is known of Police (IGP) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar told journalists at the encounter spot earlier in the day. tunate that the anti-Islam forces are being time and again encour- by nickname ‘Tita’, the official “ aged to indulge in such deliberate provocative acts P-02 said. He said that a case under the relevant section of law has been also registered and further investigation was taken up. (GNS) Demolition Drive Turns LG Orders Hiring Of Docs, Violent At NFR Srinagar: The Enforcement Wing of Lakes and Waterways Develop- Paramedics To Strengthen Healthcare ment Authority (LAWDA) on Mon- it best in the country, the objective day demolished illegal structures in of providing best possible medi- in green belt areas of the city. Ac- cal care to the patients visiting the cording to an official spokesperson, Hospitals cannot be compromised the LAWDA officials demolished at any cost”, the LG, according to two illegal constructions of single the official spokesperson said. storey houses, concrete Block, The spokesperson said that LG shuttering for Plinth and roofing at Observer News Service Education Department here at Raj stressed on strengthening of hu- Lashkari Mohalla north foreshore Bhavan, Sinha also took a serious man resources in the CHC’s and road (NFR) in green belt, Shalimar SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir note of the rise in coronavirus cases PHC’s and asked the concerned and Harwan areas. P-02 Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha in Kashmir division and directed authorities to prepare a data base Teen Hangs Self on Monday directed authorities for aggressive contact tracing of and rationalise the available staff, to fill up vacancies of doctors and COVID positive patients to contain besides filling up the vacancies of To Death paramedics to strengthen patient the deadly virus, particularly in Sri- doctors, nurses and other health Srinagar: A teenager on Monday care system in the Union Territory. nagar, an official spokesperson said. workers immediately so as to allegedly committed suicide by Chairing a meeting to review the “As we are aiming to improve the strengthen the patient care system. hanging himself in Kawoosa area of functioning of Health & Medical health care system of J&K to make “To ensure the retentionPAGE 02 central Kashmir's Budgam district. 17-year-old Zubair Ahmad Ganie was found hanging at his home in Bajwa In Saudi To Kawoosa Khalisa area of the dis- NCPCR Recommends Creation Of DEVOTEES OFFER PRAYERS inside the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib (RA) shrine on Monday, nearly five months trict on Monday evening, officials Fix Strained Ties after the religious places were shut down due to Covid-19.