Hindustan Times (Bathinda)

Low turnout in Haryana for booster dose of Covid vaccine

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CHANDIGARH: A low turnout of beneficiar­ies for the second or booster dose of the coronaviru­s in Haryana was witnessed as the state government did not plan more vaccinatio­n sessions due to routine immunisati­on on Saturday. Only 325 people were administer­ed the second dose compared to 5,907 persons who were administer­ed the first dose on January 16.

JAMMU: A terrorist affiliated with The Resistance Front (TRF), wanted in connection with the killing of three BJP workers and a policeman in south Kashmir last year, was arrested in Samba district, police said on Saturday.

The terrorist, identified as Zahoor Ahmad Rather of south Kashmir, had reportedly moved to Samba to receive an arms consignmen­t from Pakistan. “He was arrested from his rented accommodat­ion in Bari Brahmana area during a joint raid by Anantnag and Samba police late on Friday night,” said Samba SSP Rajesh Sharma.

An FIR had been registered in Anantnag against the accused in a terror case, he added.

The accused had allegedly killed a policeman in Furrah, Kulgam and three BJP workers in Vessu, Kulgam last year.

Rather was putting up at one Sadiq Hussain’s house in Teli Vastu of Bari Brahmana.

The TRF is an offshoot of Lashker-e-toiba (LET) terror outfit. Rather’s arrest comes a week after police arrested selfstyled commander of Lashkar-emustafa, Hidayatull­ah Malik alias “Hasnain”, from Kunjwani area of Jammu.

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Zahoor Ahmad Rather

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