Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, July 19: A special meeting of the activists of JKNPP was held at party headquarters here today to discuss the programme of campaign on the agenda of reorganization of the J&K State i.e. creation of three state of Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh as passed by the party in the special convention held on July 6 at Jammu.
The meeting was chaired by the chairman of the party Harshdev Singh MLA.  Hari Chand Jalmeria, general secretary conducted the proceedings.
Anita Thakur general secretary, Bansi Lal Sharma political advisor, Rajinder Singh State secretary, Shakti Gupta State president PTU, Paramjeet Singh Marshall Provincial vice-president, Gunwant Singh provincial general secretary, Shanker Singh Chib  Provincial Secretary, Pushvinder Manhas Sr. vice-president Young Panthers, Gagan Pratap Singh spokesman Young Panthers, Ravinder Singh Pathania District President (Kathua), Hari Singh District President Jammu rural, Kamal Singh Jamwal, Balbir Singh, Satvir Singh Manhas, Tara Chand, Ajay Singh Jamwal, R.S Dogra, Inder Mohinder Tar Singh, Aditya Hans, Asha Rani, Ravinder Jamwal expressed their views in the meeting.  They fully supported the agenda of the party as adopted and clarified in the July convention.
The speakers were of the view that in equality and imbalances prevailing in the state of J&K are the basis of strife at various levels.  The refusal of the Government to hold delimitation has perpetuated political discrimination which is cause of grave concern in  the minds of the people of Jammu.  The 6 monthly darbar move between Srinagar and Jammu keeps the people away from the Government at the time of difficult days of hot summer and cold winter.  Besides three hundreds crores rupees are wasted every year on the Darbar move.  The Panthers Party has proposed permanent stationing of Secretariats at Jammu, Srinagar and Ladakh for the respective regions.
The party has passed the resolution to create the state of Jammu including Muzaffrabad, Mirpur, Rawlakot etc held by PaK, Kashmir State of the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh State of Leh, Kargil, Askardu, Gilgit and Baltistan.  It was decided to hold conventions, seminars and signature campaign in the entire state to carry the agenda passed by the party at the grass root level and interact with the general-public on the agenda.

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JAMMU, July 19: The residents of village Suchani today protested against the Central University authorities who are constructing its campus at Rahya in district samba.
The people came out of their houses when a tanker bearing No. JK02K-7814 rolled down from the link road of village Suchani near the village resulting into the death of the helper of the tanker.
The deceased was identified as Saquib Hassan from Delhi. The driver fled form the spot. The protestors, demanding widening of the road said earlier due to lack of proper road accidents took place resulting in the death of three persons.
The villagers said that government as well as the management of Central University is duty bound to widen the road and construct the bypass road for the Central University. Those who participated in the protest included Sarpanch Yogeshwer Singh, Panch Bhupinder Singh, Satish Sharma and Romesh Singh etc.

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Srinagar, July 19: A Special Police Officer died after slipping into a deep gorge in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
A police spokesman said Mohammad Ashraf, working as a SPO in police station Kralpora of the district, slipped and fell into a 40-feet gorge at Rangwar-Asmaldar Behak while he was on duty.
The critically injured Ashraf was shifted to a hospital for treatment where doctors declared him ‘brought dead.’ The body was handed over to his relatives for last rites, the spokesman added.

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JAMMU, July 19:  The wholesale shoe merchants of Jammu decided to observe two day holiday on July19 and 20.
In a meeting of the Wolesale Shoe Merchants  Association Jammu held under the chairmanship of Bharat Bhushan Kerni (president), it was resolved to observe holiday on July 19  and 20 and take break from the business for picnic to Patnitop. All the shops/ outlets of the Wholesale Shoe merchants of Jammu would observe shut down on these two days.

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KARGIL, July 19: Sessions Court Kargil today acquitted six persons of the charges of forgery as prosecution failed to prove the case against them beyond reasonable doubt.
The case pertains to an FIR which was registered 19 years back in the Police Station Kargil. Initially, the FIR was with regard to embezzlement of scholarship, uniform, furniture, TV etc in the schools but during the investigation it was found that school leaving certificates were also forged by the accused, who were having the charge of the record ranging between the period 1990 to 1995. During this period, they allegedly made insertions in the certificates.
After hearing Advocate Talib Hussain for the accused and PP Mazoor, Principal Sessions Judge Kargil observed, “start witnesses—Headmaster and ZEO deposed that during their tenure between 1992 to 1995 no certificate was issued. Even all the witnesses who have been cited by the prosecution didn’t specifically mentioned which documents stand seized by the police and how does alleged insertions made in the documents”.
“The prosecution tried to strengthen his case on the basis of the report of the FSL. However, neither the IO, who sent the document to FSL has been examined in the court with regard to duly submission of the same nor the prosecution produced the expert of FSL who has given the report of the same as to prove the contents of the document”, the court said.
“There is no direct evidence in the case against the accused and the prosecution is connecting the accused on the basis of circumstantial evidence”, the court said, adding “there is breakage at every stage of evidence. Therefore, the accused cannot be linked with the commission of the crime”.
With these observations, court acquitted the accused for the commission of the offences and disposed of the challan of prosecution.