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| Terrorists getting voter IDs in J&K |
| 2008-04-28 |
| The Jammu & Kashmir police have stumbled upon yet another terrorist-official nexus that could prove a major headache for the security forces in the run-up to this year’s assembly elections. Sending security agencies into a tizzy, the police have recovered voter ID cards — the most authentic identity proofs after the passports — from slain terrorists killed in various encounters in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district recently. "The fraud was first discovered in February, when we recovered a voter ID card from Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Abu Tufail, who was killed in an encounter at Handwara in Kupwara district. Tufail, a Pakistani national, had procured an ID on a fictitious name," Handwara SP Haseeb Mughal said. He said, after that, the police recovered several voter IDs from slain Pakistani terrorists killed in encounters in Kupwara distict. "So far, we have arrested a revenue department clerk, Farooq Ahmad, for issuing a voter ID card to a Pakistani terrorist killed in February," he said, adding, "The investigations are on and more arrests are likely." He said the terrorists carried authentic voter IDs attested by revenue officials. "In many cases, the terrorists had used forged stamp of the deputy commissioner for attestation," he said. Kupwara deputy commissioner Kachoo Isfandyar Khan, said further issuance of voter ID cards has been stopped. "The issuance would resume after we work out a foolproof mechanism for issuing the cards," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 the good news is that they will be honored in Indiana (after the SCOTUS' decision today) |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-04-28 13:42 |