India

JAMMU, India (AP) — Hit by a complete security lockdown in Kashmir, hundreds of poor migrant workers have begun fleeing the Himalayan region to return to their far-away villages in northern and eastern India.

Some complained on Wednesday that their Kashmiri employers didn’t pay them any salary as security forces began imposing tight travel restrictions over the weekend and asked them to leave their jobs.

Kanpur: As many as six students from a prestigious educational institution at Kidwai Nagar area were reported to be missing after the school was over in the afternoon on Wednesday.

The guardians were perplexed, disturbed and clueless. The school management was also in a fix. The police were informed about the incident. The CCTV footage was closely studied. The missing students were seen going out of the school gate at 1:53 p.m. The police made alert at nearby police stations. Police denied it a case of suicide.

New Delhi, Aug 6 : A petition was filed in the Supreme Court Tuesday challenging the Presidential order on Article 370 which revokes the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir.

The plea has been filed by advocate M L Sharma who claimed that the Presidential order was "illegal" as it was passed without taking consent from the state assembly.

Sharma is likely to mention his plea for urgent listing before the apex court on Wednesday.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) A Hindu body on Tuesday strongly pitched in the Supreme Court for control and management of the entire disputed 2.77 acre land in the politically and religiously sensitive case of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute at Ayodhya.

Nirmohi Aakhara, one of the leading parties in the case, asserted its claim over the disputed site where the medieval structure was demolished on December 6, 1992, and said that Muslims have not been allowed to enter the place since 1934.

Sikar, Aug 6 (PTI) A Rajasthan court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl, but criticised police for failing to arrest the main accused in the six-year-old case.

Special POCSO court Judge Seema Agarwal asked Jaipur-range Inspector General of Police and Sikar SP to inform the court about the progress made to arrest Pradeep Jat, the main accused, in the case.

She directed the SP to constitute a special team to arrest him, public prosecutor Shivratan Sharma said.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) Tourists and Kashmiri locals who reached Delhi on Tuesday appeared relieved at being out of the uncertainty sweeping the Valley but expressed their angst at the situation there, with some saying it is akin to the Stone Age without lines of communication.

They also rued the heavy security deployment in the Valley as tension persisted in the region over revoking of the provisions of Article 370, which gave special powers to the state.

Bikaner, Aug 6 (PTI) A minor was allegedly raped by two men who made a video and circulated it on social media in Rajasthan's Bikaner district, police said Tuesday.

A FIR was registered against Manoj Bishnoi, 20, and Ramdhan Meghwal, 25, under relevant section of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on a complaint by the victim father, Nokha police station in-charge Bhagwan Sahay Meena said.

The accused are absconding but the police hope to nab them soon, Meena added.

07 August 2019; AFP: Armed soldiers stand in front of barbed wire in Indian Kashmir's near-silent summer capital of Srinagar during a massive security lockdown imposed on the restive region by the Hindu nationalist government.

Kashmir was stripped of its seven-decade-long autonomous status through a controversial presidential decree on Monday, a day after a crippling curfew was imposed on its main city.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) The Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to police on Tuesday seeking details of the investigation in the alleged rape of a second-year student of the JNU by a cab driver.

According to media reports, the 21-year-old was allegedly drugged and raped by the driver of a cab she had booked while returning from a friend's home on Friday night, the DCW said.

She was then allegedly dumped in a park in a semi-conscious state and was found by locals, it added.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) A number of Congress leaders across the country have gone against the party's stand in Parliament on abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir by supporting the Centre's move and a bill to bifurcate the state.

The Congress has strongly opposed the move and the bill to bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.