Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Jawan killed

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This is the second such incident in November. On November 1, police found the body of a ruling Bharatiya Janata Party worker with throat slit in Shopian. The victim was identified as Gowhar Ahmad Bhat, the district president of BJP’s youth wing in Shopian. According to locals, the body had torture marks.

Dar is also the third soldier suspected to be killed by militants while on leave this year.

In September this year, a BSF jawan on leave was killed outside his residents by militants. Ramzan Parray was gunned down at point-blank range in his home in north Kashmir’s Bandipore area.

Another army officer from Kashmir was also abducted and shot dead by militants in the state’s Shopian district in May this year, where he had gone to attend a relative’s wedding. safety is a big concern, considerin­g the high number of accidents on Indian roads. “Roads have to be designed scientific­ally, enforcemen­t has to be further bolstered and drivers need to be discipline­d,” he said.

Many states in the United States such as Texas have speed limits of 137km/hour for passenger vehicles. The average speed limit on Germany’s famed Autobahn is 142km/hr, while some stretches have no limit at all, for some classes of vehicles.

Autobahns, however, are access controlled. A driver is unlikely to encounter casual cattle crossing them while hurtling along at over 100 kmph. an eye on the developmen­ts and will provide all possible help (to the Purqazi police) in the case,” Narsan police chowki in charge Manoj Kumar told HT.

The complainan­t’s family had not looked into the bride’s antecedent­s, the police said.

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