TWO HELD WITH 4.5KG GOLD ORNAMENTS
HYDERABAD:The railway police on Friday arrested two men from Punjab with 4.5 kg gold ornaments from them at Secunderabad station.
The accused are Rajesh Khanna and Jagmohan Singh. “They were travelling from New Delhi to Bengaluru,” an official said adding gold is worth Rs 1.35 crore.
“During checking in the Bengaluru-bound Rajdhani Express, cops found three boxes with gold ornaments weighing 4,532 gm ,” a senior GRP official said.
The accused did not have valid documents to support purchase of the gold ornaments, official added.
“It seems they were transporting gold to jewellery shops in Karnataka. Further investigations are on,” he said. SRINAGAR/JAMMU At least six policemen were injured and a police vehicle torched after protests against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims turned violent in Anantnag, on Friday.
“Protesters set a police vehicle on fire. Two cops have been reported injured so far. The situation is under control,” said a police spokesperson. Sources, however, said that as many as six policemen were injured.
The protests were held in solidarity with the Rohingyas and were called by the Valley’s separatist leadership. Several protest demonstrations were held in places like Srinagar, Tral and Pampore.
Meanwhile, the protests in Jammu, Poonch, Rajouri and Ramban districts were peaceful.
The protestors raised slogans against Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi set aside the plans to deport Rohingyas from India.
Maulana Sayeed A Habib, Naib Mohtamim Jamia Zia Ul Uloom of Poonch district and president of Tanzeem Ulama-eEhle-Sunnat Wal Jamaat district Poonch strongly reacted and condemned the ongoing genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar.
In his speech, Maulana Sayeed A Habib criticised the authorities in Myanmar and said they have “crossed all limits and cannot be called humans”. He also questioned the “criminal silence” of all Muslim countries and said that by not speaking against the “atrocious” attitude of the authorities in Myanmar, they are simply giving them more courage to commit these atrocities on the Rohingyas.
The protesters in Jammu, however, welcomed PM Modi for expressing India’s concern over Rohingyas to Aung San Suu Kyi.
In Ramban, as part of the protest, all business establishments remained closed in Banihal town. A protest demonstration was also taken out in the morning. As a precautionary measure, train services between Srinagar and Banihal remained suspended on Friday. The state government in the past had claimed that 5,743 Rohingyas live in Jammu and Samba districts. However, this was in contrast to the data received by HT from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “There are some 14,000 Rohingyas refugees and asylumseekers registered with UNHCR in India, out of which 7,000 are located in J&K,” the UNHRC had replied to HT.