GNS JAMMU :J&K Police today lost a young and promising boxer, Rahul Sharma, who died in a road accident this morning while moving in a Mini-bus to attend a coaching camp at Gulshan Ground, Jammu.Having credit of beating an Olympian to win gold in the All India Police meet held in Jammu last year,Rahul had a bright future ahead. Death of this young boxer of just 21 years old spread a shock wave among those associated with sports directly or indirectly.Absorbed in the J&K Police as Special Police Officer (SPO), Rahul’s name was already recommended for the post of Constable to the higher ups. Soon after getting the shocking news, officers of the sports wing of the J&K Police reached the hospital and made the arrangements for shifting the body to his native place of Poonch .
When the holy Quran was placed before Mohammed Maqbool Butt on the morning of February 11, 1984, he knew that death awaited him in the phansi kothi a few yards away. A high voltage bulb burning outside the grated doors of his solitary cell in the death row was indicative of the outside darkness. If he had had any hopes of living awhile yet, they were dashed by the presence of the” prison doctors. Jail superintendent, A.B. Shukla/had paid Butt a visit in the middle of the previous night. Shukla chatted with him for a long time but cautiously avoided any talk about the execution. “I will see you on Monday”, Butt’s counsel on record, the sallow-complexioned R.C. Pathak, had told him during a brief interview they were allowed on the evening of February 10. In answer, the condemned Kashmir Liberation Front leader, who was awarded the death sentence of the murder of a CID officer in 1966, had meaningfully remarked: “Do you think they will permit us a second meeting?” He was right! Butt was n...
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