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The Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police said that "Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba" is responsible for the attack. Subsequently, police arrested Mohammad Abdullah (alias Abu Talah) of Lashkar-e-Taiba in connection with this massacre. [1] Seven more militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba were arrested later. [2]
Indian authorities have arrested two former top elected officials of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir under a controversial law that allows authorities to imprison someone for up to two ...
Local leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party stated that the arrests had been made under political pressure, and asked for the crime to be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). [24] Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, whose People's Democratic Party shares power in the state with the BJP, rejected the demand. [17]
The 2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown was a lockdown and communications blackout that had been imposed throughout the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir following the revocation of Article 370 (August 2019) which lasted until February 2021, with the goal of preemptively curbing unrest, violence and protests. Thousands of civilians ...
Abdullah meanwhile was released for a short time and later again re-arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state. The legal case initiated in 1958 came to be known as the Kashmir Conspiracy Case. [3] [10] Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, who was appointed as Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, said in his radio broadcast that:
A map of the disputed Kashmir region showing the areas under Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese administration. On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian constitution to Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a state which consists of the larger part of Kashmir which has been the subject of dispute ...
The Shopian rape and murder case, also known as Asiya, Neelofar case, [1] [2] is the abduction, rape and murder case of two young women allegedly by the CRPF. [3] In mysterious circumstances between 29 and 30 May 2009 at Bongam, Shopian district in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India.
In September 1990 the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was enacted in Jammu and Kashmir after passing in the Parliament of India to handle the rise in Kashmir Insurgency. [61] Human rights group Amnesty claim that the special powers under (AFSPA) gives the security force immunity from alleged violations committed, [ 62 ] [ 63 ] and condemn it.