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  • KCCI Addresses Concerns With EPFO Recovery And Penalty Notices

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    SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCC&I) recently held a meeting on April 28th 2023, with Mr. Rizwan ud din, Commissioner of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) in Jammu and Kashmir, to address concerns expressed by KCC&I member entities regarding recovery and penalty notices issued by EPFO under various provisions, particularly under Section 14B of the EPFO MFACT.

    During the meeting, several stakeholders were present along with the KCC&I Office Bearers. The Commissioner of EPFO was accompanied by the Enforcement Officer of EPFO, Kashmir, Ankur. The stakeholders expressed their grievances with the issuance of penalty and recovery notices under Section 14B.

    It was explained during the meeting that default or delay in payment and filing of relevant returns was caused by peculiar situations arising from the total restrictions imposed on public life in the State following the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. This included internet shutdowns and other means of communication for nearly four months. The woes that the business of public life had suffered through the unpredictable restrictions were further compounded with the life-threatening Covid-19 pandemic.

    Based on these facts, the KCC&I pleaded with the Commissioner to quash the demand raised through the notice issued under various provisions, especially Section 14B of EPF&MFACT, and condone the delay in filing the returns. The Commissioner was impressed upon to appreciate the ground situations prevailing during those difficult phases of disturbing events and takes a view accordingly.

    The Commissioner listened keenly and enlightened the stakeholders about the applicability and implications of the relevant rules for persisting non-compliance of the Act. He advised that a proper representation be made to the Ministry concerned asking for waiver of the penalties.

    The KCC&I is currently working out the details to be brought on the representation to be addressed to the concerned Ministry for favourable consideration, as advised by the Commissioner of EPFO. Faiz Ahmad Bakshi, Secretary-General of KCC&I, stated that the KCC&I will continue to work towards finding solutions to the issues faced by its members and the business community in Kashmir.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

    Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

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    SRINAGAR: Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), took to the streets on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to lead a protest on the occasion of International Labour Day. Tarigami’s demonstration called for the implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in its true spirit while also demanding the abolition of the contractual system of employment.

    According to Tarigami, workers employed on a contractual or daily wage basis in the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the National Health Mission were being denied their right to basic minimum wages. He stated that “Our demand is that minimum fixed wages be given to every worker as set by the labour conference.”

    After leading the protest at Residency Road, Tarigami spoke with reporters, reiterating his stance and emphasizing the importance of fair wages for all workers. He said, “Our demand is to implement the Minimum Wages Act in letter and spirit, so that the contractual system of employment is abolished, and every worker gets the minimum fixed wages as set by the labour conference.”

    Tarigami also drew attention to the long history of struggles against labour exploitation in Kashmir, pointing out that “In Zaldagar Kashmir, labourers had protested for their rights even before the May Day protests in Chicago in 1886. Workers here had fought against the taxes imposed by the then government.”

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Ex-MLA Expelled From DPAP For Anti Party Activities

    Ex-MLA Expelled From DPAP For Anti Party Activities

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    SRINAGAR: Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) Monday expelled former MLA, Haji Abdul Rasheed Dar from basic membership of the party.

    DPAP Chief, Ghulam Nabi Azad expelled Haji Abdul Rasheed Dar, ex Member Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the basic membership of the party.

    Dar has been expelled from the party for his anti-party activities.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Fire Damages Residential House In North Kashmir Village

    Fire Damages Residential House In North Kashmir Village

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    SRINAGAR: A residential house was damaged in a fire incident in Lolab area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon.

    Reports said that a fire broke out in a residential house in Cheepora village of Lolab area belonging to one Abdul Gani Khan, son of Late Gulab Khan. Soon after intimation, the Fire and Emergency Department reached the site and doused off the flames.

    An F&ES Department official said that the residential house was partially damaged in the incident. (GNS)

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Poonch Attack: Family Seeks Investigation In Suicide Case

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    Srinagar: A 50-year-old man who allegedly consumed poison on being called by police for questioning in connection with last week’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch died on Thursday. Mukhtar Hussain Shah, a farmer from Poonch’s Nar village, died by suicide days after being summoned by security agencies for questioning in the Bhata Durian terror attack case, as per his family. While the inquiry order says that the victim consumed poison at his home on Tuesday, April 25, the family dismissed the claim as a “white lie.” Quoting Rafaqat, Mukhtar’s brother, The Wire reported, “We took him to a hospital in Mendhar, and doctors referred us to the Rajouri district hospital on the same day where he passed away on Thursday, April 27 at 12:20 am. I don’t know why they have written these lies.”

    Mukhtar left behind a video on his phone where he can be seen speaking incoherently and breaking down multiple times. In the video, Mukhtar alleged that he, his family, and the neighbours were subjected to torture in the aftermath of the Poonch attack. Mukhtar held a small polythene bag containing a bottle of insecticide and claimed that he was taking his life due to the torture faced by his family and neighbours. He also stated that no one was listening to him even though he was telling the truth.

    Mukhtar expressed regret over the death of five army soldiers and rejected having any links with militants. He claimed to have worked with the police and the army last year during an encounter in Poonch before he allegedly took his life.

    Quoting sources at Rajouri district hospital, where Mukhtar passed away on April 27, The Wire reported that he allegedly consumed some poisonous substance, which is suspected to have caused his death. ‘The exact cause of his death will be known once the post-mortem proceedings are completed,’ the source added. Rafaqat alleged that Mukhtar had ‘bruises’ and ‘black marks’ on his back and thighs’, suggesting that he was tortured in custody. ‘If he has committed any wrong, let the investigators reveal the facts publicly. Why are they trying to hide the truth?’ he said.

    The J&K administration has appointed Tahir Mustafa Malik, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Poonch, to conduct an ‘in-depth magisterial inquiry into the incident and circumstances (that) led to the death’ of Mukhtar.”

    As news of Mukhtar’s death spread, a pall of gloom descended on the village. Accompanied by neighbours and relatives, Mukhtar’s family, which comprises elderly parents, five brothers, their wives, and children, blocked the Jammu-Poonch national highway between Bhimber Gali and Bhata Durian. The protesters demanded an impartial inquiry into the circumstances that led to Mukhtar’s death, following which the magisterial probe was ordered. During the protest, they were shouting anti-police, anti-administration, pro-army, and pro-India slogans, The Wire reported.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Woman Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

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    SRINAGAR: A woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Karnah area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday.

    An official said that unidentified female body was spotted by some locals under mysterious conditions at Sulmanpadi Karnah following which police was informed.

    He said that police rushed to the spot and took dead body into their custody for legal-medico formalities while identification is being ascertained.

    Meanwhile inquest proceedings U/s 174 CRPC has been initiated. (KS)

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Hideout Busted In JK, Ammunition Recovered: Officials

    Hideout Busted In JK, Ammunition Recovered: Officials

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    SRINAGAR: Ammunition was recovered after a joint team of security forces busted a militant hideout in Khari tehsil of Ramban district on Monday, official said.

    Quoting officials, GNS reported that information was received through reliable sources regarding the presence of a cache of ammunition and other incriminating material in the far flung hilly and forested area of tehsil Khari in Ramban.

    “Acting swiftly on the input, a search operation was launched by Police and SOG in the forest area and suspected hideout locations were searched during which the joint team busted and recovered ammunition from a hideout”, they said.

    The recovered ammunition as per the official include; two rifle grenades, one UBGL thrower, one wireless with antenna without battery, two IED type with wire, one detonator type with wire, seventeen AK47 cartilage, seven 9mm cartilage, one glass bottle having glycerine type liquid, one Khaki jacket and a Black leather shoe.

    “A case FIR number 106/2023 under section 4 Explosive Substance act has been registered at P/S Banihal and investigation taken up”, they said.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Bear Mauls Man In North Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR: An elderly man was injured after being attacked by a black bear in Darbal village of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday.

    Quoting an official, KNO reported that the man identified as Mohammad Yousuf Mir (45) of Darbal Langate was attacked by a bear when he was going to a nearby medical shop to buy medicines.

    Soon after the attack, he was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where from he was referred to Srinagar for specialized treatment.

    Meanwhile, officials from the wildlife department and police have reached the spot. “Efforts are on to tranquilize the bear”, said  wildlife official.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Only Court Can Transfer Undertrial Prisoners: JK High Court

    Only Court Can Transfer Undertrial Prisoners: JK High Court

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    SRINAGAR: The JK and Ladakh High Court on Monday ruled that the power to transfer an undertrial prisoner from one jail to another only vests with the Magistrate or the Court.

    Live Law Wire reported that the court or magistrate is the ultimate authority to shift an undertrail prisoner after it has remanded the detenue to a certain prison, and jail authorities cannot have a say in this.

    Referring to the Prison Manual 2022-for the superintendence and management of prisons in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir read with Prisoners Act, 1900, a bench comprising of Justice M A Chowdhary observed that the transfer of an undertrial can be done by a judicial order in this regard passed by a court.

    “The power to remand or transfer of an undertrial prisoner from one jail to another is to be exercised by the Court by passing a judicial order, obviously after providing opportunity of being heard and that the change in the place of detention would be permissible only with the permission of the Court under whose warrant the undertrial has been remanded to custody,” bench observed.

    The observations were passed while hearing a plea filed by a widowed mother seeking transfer of her undertrial son from district jail, Poonch to Central jail, Srinagar or any other jail close to his home to meet the ends of justice.

    The Undertrail who is facing a trial for a case registered at Police Station Uri, Baramulla under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), has been in judicial custody since his arrest in July 2017,. He was removed from Sub Jail, Baramulla to District Jail, Poonch on the grounds that that he was not a disciplined prisoner and that he had misbehaved with the jail staff and created law and order situation in the jail.

    After considering the contentions of the petitioner the bench observed that the widowed mother of the undertrail would visit him as and when needed while he was lodged in Baramulla jail but later he was shifted to District Jail, Poonch without any intimation to the petitioner.

    The petitioner approached the Director General of Police, Prisons, J&K seeking transfer of her son to District Jail, Srinagar, but received no response and accordingly the petitioner filed an application in the trial court seeking change in custody, which was dismissed.

    In view of the same the petitioner was constrained to file the instant petition seeking transfer/shifting of her son’s custody from District Jail, Poonch to Central Jail, Srinagar or any other jail near his home.

    The court noted that the respondents have failed to place on record as to what were the jail offences that he committed and how he had been proceeded against and merely saying that he had been an undisciplined prisoner does not warrant to his transfer to a distant place.

     

    Elaborating further on the matter Justice Chowdhary observed that though Section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides for appointment of the place of imprisonment by the State Government, however, in view of the interpretation by the Apex Court in State of Maharashtra & Ors. v. Saeed Sohail Sheikh 2013, the power to direct transfer of the undertrial prisoner from one jail to another clearly vests with the Magistrate/ Court which had remanded the detenue to a certain prison.

     

    Underscoring that it will be difficult for a widowed mother to go to Poonch to meet her son, the court pointed out that petitioner, in this case, has been shifted from Sub Jail Baramulla to a distant prison which is at the farthest place in Jammu Division at Poonch.

    “The petitioner’s family, in case they require to meet the petitioner as an undertrial in district jail, Poonch, have to travel all along from Kashmir to Jammu and then from Jammu to Poonch for almost two days,” the court said.

    The court directed the respondents to shift the petitioner from district jail, Poonch and keep him in any other prison in Kashmir Division, preferably near his home, after seeking necessary orders on his behalf from the trial Court.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • In Three Months, JKP Traced 23 Women In One District

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    SRINAGAR: Under the guidance of SSP Samba Benam Tosh, the police have traced three more missing women from different areas and reunited them with their families. According to a statement issued here, one missing young girl hailing from the Samba tehsil area has been traced by Samba Police from Bhaderwah, district Doda.

    The second missing woman, who also belongs to Samba tehsil, has been recovered from the Vijaypur area, and the third missing woman, who is a resident of Rajpura tehsil, has also been traced.

    The relatives of the missing females had approached the police to recover their missing family members. Based on their missing reports lodged at the concerned police station, the police have recovered the missing females and reunited them with their families. The police teams comprising SHO Police Station Samba Rajeshwar Singh, SHO Police Station Ghagwal Bharat Bhushan, PSI Rajat Sharma, and SI Yog Raj, under the supervision of Deputy SP Garu Ram Bhardwaj and Additional SP Samba Surinder Choudhary, have recovered the missing females.

    Thus, the three separate missing reports entered at the police station Samba & police station Ghagwal have been disposed of. Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh said that Samba Police have recovered 31 missing persons, including 23 females, in three months from different places such as Kashmir, Ramban, Bhaderwah, Amritsar (Punjab), Jalandhar (Punjab), Nainital (Uttarakhand), Katra, Saidpur (Punjab), Jammu, and several other places. The police have reunited them with their families following proper procedures under the law.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )