Jammu and Kashmir has its own Natwarlal. In a con worthy of Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, the infamous Indian fraudster who went by that alias, a resident of Rajouri district, accused in an attempt to rape case, tricked the police into flying him to Jammu in a helicopter often used by VVIPs, including chief minister Omar Abdullah, from Rajouri.

Violent protests over the killing of a youth in Army firing in Baramulla spread to new areas in tense Kashmir Valley on Wednesday even as curfew restrictions remained in force in parts of summer capital Srinagar and in the towns of Kulgam, Baramulla, Sopore and Trehgam. Scores including 18 local policemen and five CRPF jawans were injured, police and hospital sources said.

The J&K Assembly, now in its Budget Session in winter capital Jammu, was adjourned twice on Monday as mainstream Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) created ruckus over the hanging of Parliamen

Suspected Kashmiri militants killed two Indian Reserve Police personnel in a hit-and-run attack in Handwara town of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Saturday, the first such incident in Handwara in five years.
Officials said the policemen, in their mid-twenties, were standing guard at the bus terminus when masked gunmen abroad a red Maruti Omni struck. The vehicle then sped away.

In a significant move, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has formally asked the Centre to return the mortal remains of Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muha-mmad Afzal, two Kashm-iris hanged and buried in Delhi’s Tihar jail on two different occasions for two dissimilar offences, in view of the public sentiment involved.

Parliament attack convict Muhamnmad Afzal Guru wanted his family not to have any regrets over his execution but to show respect to the preferred place he was achieving shortly.

The Army on Friday returned to the Pakistan Army the bullet-riddled corpse of the Pakistani soldier killed on Thursday when he allegedly intruded into Jammu and Kashmir.

Scores of people, including a senior police officer, were injured as violent protests against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru spread to new areas in Kashmir Valley on Monday.

Indefinite curfew imposed on Saturday in almost all major Valley cities and towns following Afzal Guru’s execution Saturday continued uninterrupted Sunday with thousands of policemen and CRPF jawans in battle gear out on the streets to enforce restrictions.

The entire Kashmir Valley was placed under indefinite curfew at dawn on Saturday, ahead of Afzal Guru’s execution at Delhi’s Tihar, with people waking up to see thousands of police and CRPF jawans in full battle gear deployed on the streets.