The Jammu Kashmir administration Monday ordered the removal of inscription of Sheikh Abdullah on Police medals and ordered its replacement with an Indian emblem.
In an order released the Manoj Sinha-led administration ordered that in modification to the Para 4 of the Jammu Kashmir Police Medal Scheme.
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Pertinently, after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A on August 05, 2019, the local laws were replaced by the central laws, Admin and the Jammu Kashmir-based Ranbir Penal code was declared “null and Void”.
“It is hereby ordered that the words ‘Sher-i-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry and Sher-i-Kashmir police medal for meritorious service’ wherever appearing in the government order No.332(P) of 2001 dated 01.08.2001, as amended from time to time, shall henceforth be read as ‘Jammu and Kashmir police medal for gallantry and Jammu and Kashmir police medal for meritorious service,” the Principal Secretary, home department, had said in an order issued in the third week of the January 2020. (GNS)