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22 <strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
WORLD<br />
www.theasianindependent.co.uk<br />
Army releases video<br />
of unclaimed Pak BAT<br />
commando corpses<br />
New Delhi : The Indian Army<br />
released a video clip on Monday<br />
showing unclaimed dead bodies of<br />
four Pakistani Special Services<br />
Group (SSG) commandos gunned<br />
down along the LoC in Jammu and<br />
Kashmir on August 1.<br />
The clip - which is 1.52 secs in<br />
duration - shows aerial footage of a<br />
hilly terrain in the Keran sector of<br />
Jammu and Kashmir shot using a<br />
drone-mounted camera. The footage<br />
shows five dead bodies lying on the<br />
hilly terrain apart from weapons that<br />
were being carried by the commandos.<br />
"Pakistan is yet to claim the dead<br />
bodies," said an Army officer.<br />
On August 3, the Army had<br />
claimed that it had foiled an attempt<br />
by Pakistan's Border Action Team<br />
(BAT) to carry out a strike in Keran<br />
sector on the LoC.<br />
Army sources said heavy casualties<br />
were inflicted on the BAT and assessed that<br />
at least four possible SSG commandos<br />
were killed as the bodies were spotted<br />
close to the post on LoC where the action<br />
took place.<br />
The BAT attempt had taken place on the<br />
intervening night of July 31 and August 1.<br />
According to the Army, search operations<br />
and attempts to recover the bodies are<br />
being continuously interfered by Pakistani<br />
AAP dares BJP to follow<br />
Delhi power tariffs<br />
New Delhi : Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)<br />
here on Monday challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party to<br />
give free 200-unit power in any of<br />
the states ruled by it, after the BJP<br />
criticised the announcement by the<br />
Arvind Kejriwal government. At a<br />
public meeting, AAP Delhi chief<br />
Gopal Rai said the electricity was<br />
available 24X7 to residents of<br />
Delhi. Before the AAP, the<br />
Congress was in the government for<br />
15 years and the BJP for five years<br />
before that but neither of them showed any seriousness<br />
about the increasing power bill.<br />
"In Delhi, up to 200 units have been free since August.<br />
Not only this, there is also a 50 per cent rebate on bills for<br />
200-400 units," Rai said. "Two of our neighbours, Haryana<br />
and UP, are ruled by the BJP. The condition of electricity,<br />
water and school in those states is not hidden from anyone.<br />
The UP government recently increased power tariffs 12 per<br />
cent," Rai said.<br />
PUBG-addicted son held for<br />
killing father in Karnataka<br />
Belagavi (Karnataka) : In a shocking incident in<br />
Karnataka's Belagavi, a 21-year-old youth was arrested for<br />
allegedly killing his father for refusing money to re-charge<br />
his mobile phone to play the addictive Player Unknown's<br />
Battle Grounds (PUBG) online game, police said on<br />
Monday.<br />
"The gruesome murder took place earlier in the day<br />
when accused K. Raghuveer attacked his father K.<br />
Shankarappa, 62, with a kitchen knife, slitting his throat,<br />
chopping his hands and legs in a fit of rage at home for<br />
allegedly refusing him money to recharge his mobile phone<br />
for playing PUBG, to which was addicted," Belagavi city<br />
police commissioner B.S. Lokesk Kumar told IANS here.<br />
troops deployed in the area. This location<br />
within the Keran sector has been under<br />
intermittent shelling by Pakistani army<br />
posts.<br />
The BAT comprises Pakistani Army<br />
commandos as well as terrorists and carries<br />
out cross-border operations and raids<br />
across the LoC in order to ensure domination<br />
along the stretch over India. BAT personnel<br />
are trained by Pakistani Army and<br />
the Air Force. Intelligence reports have further<br />
alerted that Pakistan plans to carry out<br />
Azam Khan's<br />
sons, wife get<br />
notice in land<br />
grabbing case<br />
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) :<br />
Trouble for Rampur Member of<br />
Parliament (MP) Azam Khan and<br />
his family members is mounting<br />
day by day. The District<br />
Administration has pasted a notice<br />
on the house of Azam Khan's son<br />
Abdullah Azam here on Monday.<br />
The notice has been issued to<br />
Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima,<br />
who is also Rajya Sabha MP and<br />
two of their sons - Abdullah Azam<br />
Khan and Adeeb Azam Khan<br />
under various sections of the<br />
Indian Penal Code (IPC) over land<br />
encroachment. They have been<br />
alleged to have grabbed farmers<br />
land for Mohammad Ali Jauhar<br />
University.<br />
According to the notice, all the<br />
accused have been summoned for<br />
questioning. Police have given<br />
them three days time to appear<br />
before it for questioning.<br />
BAT action against India at the LoC.<br />
Special Services Group commandos have<br />
been activated near the Iqbal Bajwa post of<br />
Pakistan opposite Sir Creek in Gujarat.<br />
On Monday, Lieutenant General<br />
Satinder Saini, GoC-in-C of Southern<br />
Command, said security capacities are<br />
being built up in the Sir Creek area after<br />
discovery of abandoned boats in the estuary<br />
that points towards possible infiltration<br />
of Pakistan-trained militants into Indian<br />
territory.<br />
SC moved for changes in<br />
SOP of NRC in Assam<br />
New Delhi :<br />
An impleadment<br />
application was<br />
filed in the<br />
Supreme Court,<br />
seeking to suggest<br />
changes in a<br />
standard operating<br />
procedure<br />
(SOP) for the<br />
adjudication of<br />
appeals by the<br />
Foreigners<br />
Tribunals for<br />
those excluded<br />
from the National Register of<br />
Citizens (NRC) in Assam.<br />
The impleadment application<br />
said changes in SOP will<br />
provide a provision for change<br />
in the legacy persons as errors<br />
have taken place due to confusion<br />
created by a large number<br />
of identical names. It has been<br />
filed by the Assam-based<br />
Brahmaputra Valley Civil<br />
Society through advocate Satya<br />
Mitra, which works for the<br />
uplift of the poor and for the<br />
enforcement of their social,<br />
economic and cultural rights.<br />
The society has requested the<br />
apex court to consider its suggestion<br />
on SOP to provide fair,<br />
just, reasonable and transparent<br />
proceedings before the<br />
Tribunals.<br />
The SOP has been drawn to<br />
make the process of appeals<br />
fair and transparent, and provides<br />
a reasonable opportunity<br />
to all concerned uniformly<br />
throughout the state in a timebound<br />
manner.<br />
The petitioner said the<br />
appellants could submit legacy<br />
data or documents of their<br />
ancestors or selves in support<br />
of their appeals as per the list of<br />
admissible legacy documents<br />
and they might change their<br />
wrongly identified and used<br />
legacy persons in the original<br />
application. In case of change<br />
of legacy person, a modified<br />
list of children and grandchildren<br />
(called the family tree) of<br />
the legacy person could be submitted.<br />
"Certified copy of the legacy<br />
documents, submitted by the<br />
appellants, may be verified as<br />
per existing norms followed by<br />
the Tribunal. The authenticity<br />
of the legacy data may be verified<br />
by using the NRC website<br />
and database," the petitioner<br />
said. To check the misuse of<br />
legacy data or documents, the<br />
veracity of the family tree may<br />
be ascertained by hearing adult<br />
members of each family of the<br />
modified family tree submitted<br />
due to change of legacy person,<br />
the application suggested.
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