Srinagar, Feb 22 : A local police station at Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir has registered an FIR under section 302 against the Army, in connection with a firing incident on Saturday in which two youths were killed and another one was critically injured.
Twenty two Rashtriya Rifles battalion of the Army is alleged to have opened indiscriminate fire, without any provocation, on a group of people who were part of a festival of a revered Saint''s shrine in Bomai.
The firing has claimed the lives of Mohammad Amin Tantray of Bomai-Sopore and Javid Ahmad of Muslimpeer-Sopore and has injured one Firdous Ahmad.
Jammu, Feb. 21 : After getting elected to the Rajya Sabha, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly.
"Azad submitted his resignation on February 19 to the pro-tem speaker of Jammu and Kashmir assembly, Choudhary Mohammad Aslam, who has accepted it," Secretary of the House M Ramzan said on Saturday.
Azad was elected to the Rajya Sabha on February 6. He was serving his second straight term as an MLA from Bhaderwah in Doda District.