rd WEDNESDAY C Contact M DECEMBER - 2020 : -0194-2502327 23 kashmir FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & Y SRINAGAR : HAZY SUNSHINE 02 K YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 16O SUNSET O Today 05:21 PM Minmum : -1 SUNRISE Humidity : 68% Tommrow 07:19 AM 17 Rabi-us-Sani | 1442 Hijri | Vol:23 | Issue: 268 | Pages:08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 P6 LIFE & TIMES P4 EDITPAGE P7 NEWS Plastic pollution Indian Madrassas – A Pandemic to fan surge threatening Ganges Need for Reorientation in humanitarian needs wildlife, study finds in 2021: UN NEWS DIGEST DDC POLLS Kashmir: Tarigami Challenges Mughal Road Reopens 34.8% After 9 Days New J&K Land Laws POONCH: The Mughal road, con- Srinagar 33.8 % necting Shopian and Poonch 49.5 % Voter Turnout Budgam 43.9 % districts, reopened after 9 days In Apex Court closure due to snowfall along the Kupwara 58.6 % thoroughfare, officials said on Baramulla 30.2 % NEW DELHI: Veteran CPI-M leader He said the laws of the erstwhile Tuesday. Bandipora 70.8 % Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami has state government on land were “Subject to fair weather and In Second Phase approached the Supreme Court aimed at protecting the large swathes good road condition (only down- Ganderbal 49.1 % challenging an October order of of farm land that provided life blood ward traffic) load carriers carry- KO Photo: Abid Bhat Anantnag 30.9 % the Union Home Ministry which to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, ing fresh fruits/vegetables shall SRINAGAR: A 49.5 percent turnout Shopian 17.2 % allows people from across the from commercialisation. be allowed from Herpora (Shop- was recorded in the second phase country to buy land in Jammu and “This crucial aspect has not been ian) from 1100 hrs to 1500 hours of polling in District Development Pulwama 8.6 % Kashmir including that meant for considered by the respondents towards Poonch,” a police officer Council (DDC) elections in Jammu agriculture purposes. (MHA) while issuing the notifica- told news agency GNS. and Kashmir which passed off Moving a writ petition, he sought tion,” the petition said. “No vehicle shall be allowed peacefully on Tuesday. the apex court’s intervention and a after cut off timing. Moreover, Jammu region witnessed 65.54 stay on the order till his petition is no passenger vehicle or pedes- percent voting, while Kashmir valley Jammu: heard. trian shall be allowed on Mughal recorded an average of 33.34 percent 65.5% The petition moved under Article Road,” he added. turnout, state election commissioner 32 (violation of fundamental rights) K K Sharma told reporters here. submitted that the October notifica- CASO Launched Bandipora district recorded the Kishtwar 61.6 % tion “is illegal” as it is issued in pur- highest turnout in Kashmir at 69.66 Rajouri 60.2 % suance to the August 2019 reorgan- In Sopore percent which was the third-highest isation of Jammu and Kashmir which SRINAGAR: Government forces in the union territory. Poonch 75.1 % has been challenged by several peo- on Tuesday launched a cordon A turnout of 51.76 was recorded Udhampur 62.5 % ple and that the top court is aware of and search operation (CASO) in in the first phase on November 28-- Doda 64.8 % the matter. Sopore town of north Kashmir’s 64.2 percent in the Jammu division It said that home ministry has Baramulla district. and 40.65 percent in the Kashmir Kathua 60.1 % amended sections of the JK Land According to reports, special division. Ramban 66.2 % Revenue Act, 1996 which pertains to operations group (SOG) of police, Reasi 69.2 % management of agricultural land and army’s 22 RR and 179 CRPF on Tues- the JK Development Act, 1970 which day evening cordoned off Model Tral Boycotts Samba 66.4 % deals with zonal development plans Town -B locality of Sopore and Ballot Box determining land use for buildings, conducted house to house search- roads housing recreation, industry, es following inputs about the TRAL: Residents of Tral in business, markets, schools, hospitals presence of militants in the area. south Kashmir’s Pulwama ‘Voting To Keep ECI Will Take Final Call On and public and private open spaces. Searches were going on in the area district on Tuesday stayed BJP Away’ Pointing out the amendments in when last reports came in. away from ballot box owing Assembly Polls: Sharma the Act, the petition said that while In an 111-page notification in Hindi to the lack of development Unlike the voters at other plac- the fresh laws prohibits the sale of ag- and English, the home ministry made 7 Officials Suspended in the area from the last es, the electors at one of the SRINAGAR: The Election limited to holding polls to urban ricultural land to a non-agriculturist, several changes to the land laws, in- seven decades. More On P2 polling booths in Amira Kadal Commission of India will take a fi- local bodies and panchayati Raj but it “authorises the government or cluding the most important amend- In Budgam constituency here had turned nal call on holding the first assem- institutions. an officer appointed by it to grant per- ment in the Jammu and Kashmir BUDGAM: District Panchayat up at the booth to “ensure that bly polls after the reorganisation “We held deliberations with mission to an agriculturist to alienate Development Act that deals with dis- Election Officer (DPEO) Budgam, The election is significant as it is their votes will keep the BJP of Jammu and Kashmir as a union the law and order machinery the land to a non-agriculturist by way posal of land with the Centre omitting Shahbaz Ahmed Mirza on Tues- the first major democratic exercise candidate away.” More On P2 territory, state election commis- and other agencies involved in of sale, gift, exchange or mortgage or the phrase “permanent resident of the day placed seven officials under since the Centre abrogated Article sioner K K Sharma said on Tuesday. holding the elections for District for such agreement on such condi- state” from Section 17 of the law. suspension for dereliction of Elec- 370 that gave special status to J-K “It will not be appropriate for Development Councils before tions as may be prescribed”. Before the repeal of Article 370 tion duties till further orders. and bifurcated the state into two me to comment on it. The Election deciding on it. Tarigami pleaded that the change and Article 35-A in August last year, The officials in question had union territories in August year. Commission (of India) will take a “I am sure a similar process of land use can’t be left at the “ca- non-residents could not buy any failed to report on poll duties Poonch recorded the highest turn- PDP Leader ‘Detained’ final decision on assembly elec- will be followed for holding as- price of bureaucracy more so at the immovable property in Jammu and scheduled for Phase 2nd at Beer- out of 75 percent on Tuesday, while Briefly By Police tions,” Sharma told reporters here. sembly elections but the Election lower rung of district collectors” and Kashmir. The latest changes have wah, Budgam. Pulwama retained its position at the He was replying to a question Commission will decide on it,” he said the checks and balances avail- paved the way for non-residents to Meanwhile, the said officials bottom, as in the first phase, with just A People’s Democratic Party whether the situation was con- said. The last assembly elections able in the repealed laws need rein- buy land in the union territory. have been directed to remain at- 8.67 percent people casting their votes. (PDP) leader on Tuesday was ducive in Jammu and Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir were held troducing in them. The notifications evoked angry tached in the office of Additional Out of the 280 constituencies in allegedly detained by police for holding the elections to the in November-December, 2014, The four-time MLA from Kulgam reactions from mainstream political Deputy Commissioner Budgam Jammu and Kashmir, 43 went to when the municipal elec- legislative assembly of the union which led to the formation of the pleaded that these amendments will parties in Jammu and Kashmir who till further orders. polls in the second phase with 25 tions were in progress in this territory PDP-BJP government in the erst- “seriously change the land use pat- termed the move an attempt by the in Kashmir and 18 in the Jammu capital city. More On P2 Sharma said as state election while state for the first and the tern and will destroy the food secu- Centre to “put Jammu and Kashmir Man Ends Life division. More On P2 commissioner, his mandate was last time. More On P2 rity of Jammu and Kashmir”. up for sale”.—PTI In Srinagar SRINAGAR: A man on Tuesday al- legedly ended his life by hanging himself to death in Shalimar area Youth Shot 8 More Corona Deaths In Govt Forms Committees To BSF Officer of this capital city. The 50-year-old man identified At By Gunmen J&K, Toll Crosses 1700 Mark Implement Forest Rights Act Killed In as Bashir Ahmad son of Ghulam Mohammed of Banigam Shali- In Srinagar OBSERVER MONITORING DESK to the constitution of UT Level Pak Firing mar, allegedly hanged himself SRINAGAR:A 24-year-old youth 454 More Monitoring Committee, Sub- JAMMU: A sub-inspector of the to death at his home on Tuesday on Tuesday was critically injured SRINAGAR: At least eight more Divisional Committee and District Border Security Force (BSF) was morning, news agency KDC re- after unknown gunmen fired people succumbed to corona- Test Positive Level Committee(s) for implemen- killed on Tuesday in a cross-border ported.