Srinagar, May 16 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Sopore sub-division on Saturday carried out searches at 15 locations in connection with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cases linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami organisation.Police said that in Sopore sub-division searches were carried out at over 15 locations across Bomai, Warpora, Sopore and Tarzoo in connection with a UAPA case linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami network.The ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami party was extended by the g…
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Srinagar, May 15 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town said on Friday that they have attached the property of a terror handler operating from Pakistan as part of the ongoing major crackdown on terror network. A police statement said that the proclaimed offender linked to terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen had crossed to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) for arms training and was now acting as a terror handler from there.Police attached the immovable property of a proclaimed offender involv…
Srinagar, May 11 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town said on Monday it has carried out a major crackdown against drug peddlers and arrested five people in three separate FIRs.A police statement said today under the ongoing Nasha Mukt Jammu Kashmir Abhiyaan, in continuation of the sustained anti-drug enforcement drive, Sopore Police achieved a major success by apprehending five drug peddlers in three separate actions and recovering psychotropic substances across Police District Sop…
Srinagar, May 11 (IANS) During the ongoing 100-day long ‘Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir Abhiyaan’, 616 FIRs were registered and 646 people were arrested as authorities demolished a structure belonging to a drug peddler in Sopore. Officials said on Sunday that during the ongoing anti-drug campaign 614 FIRs were registered, 646 people were arrested as authorities demolished a structure belonging to a drug peddler in Sopore town.An official statement said that the Jammu and Kashmir administration has…
Srinagar, April 21 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Sopore town said on Tuesday that an FIR has been registered against miscreants for chopping down apple trees in an orchard.Officials said that the FIR was registered after unidentified persons chopped down dozens of apple trees in an orchard at the Bohripora area in the Sopore area of Baramulla district, causing significant loss to the owner.The family owning the apple orchard said the incident took place during the night when miscreants entered th…
Srinagar, April 14 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town on Tuesday arrested 25 miscreants for trying to disturb law and order in the aftermath of the suspension of a teacher and subsequent registration of a case against him after a girl student alleged harassment by him.Police said that 25 miscreants were arrested, and others have been identified when they tried to disturb law and order in the town.Police said the teacher has been booked under the relevant sections of law, and an i…
Srinagar, Feb 2 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out raids at multiple locations across the Kashmir Valley as part of an ongoing investigation into terror-related activities and funding networks.NIA sources said the searches were conducted early in the morning in Srinagar, Baramulla, Sopore, and BandiporaSources said the NIA teams were assisted by local police and the CRPF in raids conducted simultaneously at residential and other premises linked to suspected indi…
Srinagar, Jan 13 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Sopore sub-division on Tuesday busted a major drug racket in which a huge quantity of psychotropic substances was recovered, and a drug peddler was arrested.”Sopore police have apprehended a key drug peddler and recovered a large quantity of psychotropic substances during a targeted operation in the Tarzoo area. Police Station Tarzoo received specific and credible information that Mehraj-ud-Din Sheikh, son of Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh, resident of Ganai…
Srinagar, Dec 24 (IANS) A leopard entered the CRPF camp on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district and injured a trooper inside the camp.Officials said that a leopard entered the Kapran CRPF camp in the district, creating panic and chaos there.“Head constable, Kamleshwar Kumar, was injured in the leopard attack. He was given first aid at the local primary health centre, and his condition is stable. He is back in the camp,” the officials said.Wildlife protection department field …