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Outrage as VDC member kills Muslim woman, 4-year-old son

December 25, 2015

Srinagar, Dec 25: A Village Defence Committee (VDC) member on Thursday allegedly killed a woman and her son in Jammu’s Rajouri district, second such incident in a week, sparking protests and demand to disarm the armed civilians in the State.

violenceAround noon, the accused, Mushtaq Ahmad, a resident of Rajouri’s Mohra Dhaveen village, barged into the house of Shamim Akhter, 35, and shot her dead along with her four-year-old son Tawheed Ahmad in Samote village.

Mr. Ahmad was arrested and booked under a criminal case. The VDC member has been reportedly stalking the woman for some time.

Last week, a National Conference (NC) youth leader, Ishtyaq Choudhary, was shot dead by Kewal Kumar Sharma, a VDC member, in Rajouri’s Kalakote area.

Constituted in 1995 to fight militants, the Village Defence Committee, with around 2,600 members, faces around 160 cases of crime, which include kidnapping and rape.

While Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, a senior BJP leader, discounted the option of disbanding the VDCs, the Peoples Democratic Party supported disarming of the VDC members.

“There is a debate to disarm these members. We condemn the dastardly attack against civilians. No one will be allowed to take the law into their own hands,” PDP leader Waheed Parra said.

NC chief spokesperson Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi threatened to “launch an agitation if the PDP-BJP alliance continues patronising of the armed committees.”

Separatist Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani expressed surprise “over the refusal of Mr. Nirmal Singh on disbanding the VDCs.”

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New Delhi, Feb 14: AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his swearing-in ceremony scheduled to take place at the Ramlila Maidan on February 16, senior party leader Gopal Rai said on Friday.

Rai, the convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi unit, said a letter was sent to the prime minister on Friday morning.

All seven Delhi MPs and eight newly-elected BJP MLAs have also been invited for the oath-taking ceremony, Rai told news agency.

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Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi Chief minister along with his cabinet at Ramlila Maidan at 10 am on Sunday.

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January 7,2020

New Delhi, Jan 7: Services at various bank branches and ATMs are likely to be affected as hundreds of employees will go on a bank strike across the country on Wednesday.

The bank strike is part of the Bharat Bandh call given by trade unions to protest against the labour reforms and economic policies of the Central government, according to reports.

The protestors' main demand during the Bharat Bandh is that the Centre should drop the proposed labour reforms.

A Bill in this regard was passed and proposes to merge 44 labour laws into four codes -- wages, industrial relations, social security, and safe working conditions.

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New Delhi, Mar 6: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday will move the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 for consideration and passing in Lok Sabha.

In December last year, the Union Cabinet had approved a proposal to promulgate an ordinance to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016.

The amendments will remove certain ambiguities in the IBC 2016 and ensure smooth implementation of the code, an official statement said.

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Under the amendments, the liability of a corporate debtor for an offence committed before the corporate insolvency resolution process will cease.

The debtor will not be prosecuted for an offence from the date the resolution plan has been approved by the adjudicating authority if a resolution plan results in change in the management or control of the corporate debtor to a person who was not a promoter or in the management or control of the corporate debtor or a related party of such a person.

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