Srinagar: A court here yesterday issued an arrest warrant against former Jammu and Kashmir minister Shabir Ahmad Khan, accused in a sexual assault case. Doctors too demanded his arrest.
A senior police official said: “We have obtained an arrest warrant from the chief judicial magistrate Srinagar against Shabir Ahmad Khan...”.
Khan on Friday resigned from the ministry. His resignation was accepted by Governor N N Vohra on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s recommendation.
The police official said a team has been despatched to arrest him. Police sources said the team would initially go to Jammu and, if needed, outside the state.
Khan is accused of sexually assaulting a doctor after he called her to his office on January 28.
Doctors held protests here to demand Khan’s arrest. The doctors suspended duties in all the hospitals of Srinagar city yesterday. Kashmir doctors association president Nissar-ul-Hassan said unless the accused is arrested and given exemplary punishment, the protests would continue.
PM releases stamp on
Jagjit Singh
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday released a commemorative stamp in honour of veteran singer Jagjit Singh. “In the musical history of our country, Jagjit Singh has a special place. He is not amongst us today, but his magical voice and music will always have an impact on us,” Manmohan Singh said after releasing the stamp.
The singer passed away in October 2011. The prime minister said though Jagjit Singh also sang classical, devotional and folk songs, but he would be most remembered for his ghazals.
“It would not be wrong to say that the style of ghazal singing adopted by him in India gave a new life to the art in the country,” he said. “Artists such as Jagjit Singh are born once in several centuries.... I congratulate the postal department for releasing a stamp in his memory,” he added.
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