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On Saturday, registration permits of a large number of Amarnath Yatris were found to be fake. These passengers had to stay in the camp itself.
The police have arrested three persons involved in cheating the pilgrims of the Amarnath Yatra which began on July 1. Police said that the three accused were involved in making and selling fake registration slips for travel in Jammu and Kashmir.
Of these, the main accused is a resident of Delhi, who used to make fake permits. Two of his associates used to arrange bus service and prepare medical certificates for the devotees. These people had committed fraud with a large number of Amarnath Yatris.
Passengers with fake registration sitting in a camp in Jammu. He appealed to the government to solve this matter at the earliest.
Police had received more than 400 fake permits on Friday
Police on Friday seized over 400 fake registration permits from passengers in Jammu, Sambha and Kathua districts. After this, the police started investigation by registering a case against unknown people.
Jammu’s Senior Superintendent of Police Chandan Kohli said that our investigation revealed that a person from Delhi is running this racket. A team of J&K Police raided Delhi and arrested the accused named Harendra Verma from West Rohtas Nagar, Shahdara. Later, two of his associates – Dalip Prajapati and Vinod Kumar – were also arrested.
The police have arrested all the three accused from Delhi.
Police seized the computer-printer of the accused
SSP Chandan Kohli told that a computer and printer have been seized during the raid. With the help of these, fake registrations were made and printed. The SSP has appealed to Amarnath Yatris to register only by going to government offices and avoid falling prey to such criminals.
On Saturday, the second batch of Amarnath Yatris left from Nunwan base camp in Anantnag.
For the first time, table-sofa for Amarnath pilgrims, coarse grain in Bhandara
Saturday was the first day of Shri Amarnath Yatra. Around 16,000 devotees visited Baba Barfani on the first day, out of which around 655 people were from Amritsar. Thousands of devotees from all over the country are reaching Baltal here, for whose service the langar societies have also arranged sofa-tables and chairs this time. Never before had there been arrangement of sofas and tables here.
Nutritious and coarse grains are being served in the Bhandara from morning till night, so that strength and immunity remain in the body of the passengers. Oatmeal, black gram, curd, paranthas, halwa, lassi, bread pakoras, tea-coffee, besan roti, salad, bajra roti, lentils, rice, curry, paneer, saffron-almond milk, Rajmah and Fat grains are being given.
Junk-fried food, tobacco products banned
This time there will be a ban on sale of tobacco products and junk or fried food at all the stops. There are 120 langars on both the routes. It will be mandatory for passengers to wear helmets on the 2.5 km high-risk route. You will get these free of cost.
spot registration possible
For the journey, after coming to Srinagar, one has to reach the base camp Baltal, 98 km away via cab. Onspot registration has started in Jammu. 800 m starting from Baltal. Asphalt road has been made. Next 2 km is paver block road till Domel. From there till Barari there is 8 km kutcha road. Although it has been widened. Beyond this is a steep ascent with a 5 km slope. The road work is going on till the cave.
Importance of Amarnath Dham
- Lord Shiva is believed to be seated in a holy cave at Amarnath in the form of a Barfa-lingam i.e. Shivalinga of ice. It is also called ‘Baba Barfani’ because of the formation of Shivling from snow.
- The holy cave is surrounded by glaciers, snowy mountains. The cave is covered with snow for most of the year, except for a few days in summer. It remains open for pilgrims to visit only on those days of summer.
- The special thing is that every year the Shivling of ice is formed naturally in this cave. The ice lingam is formed by the dripping of water droplets from a crack in the ceiling of the cave. Due to the extreme cold, the water freezes and takes the shape of a Shivling of ice.
- This is the only Shivling in the world, which increases and decreases depending on the light of the moon. This Shivling is completed on the full moon of Shravan Shukla Paksha and after that it reduces considerably in size till the coming new moon. This happens every year.
There have been 36 terrorist attacks on the Amarnath Yatra.
- The first threat to Amarnath pilgrims was given in 1993 by the Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Ansar terrorist organization.
- The first terrorist attack on Amarnath Yatra took place in 2000. In these 32 people were killed, out of which 21 were pilgrims.
- In 2001, 13 people were killed in a grenade attack by terrorists on the pilgrims’ camp.
- In 2002, 11 pilgrims were killed in two terror attacks. In 2017, 8 pilgrims were killed in the firing of terrorists.
- In 2017, the government told the Lok Sabha that from 1990 to 2017, that is, in 27 years, there were 36 terrorist attacks on the Amarnath Yatra, in which 53 pilgrims died, while 167 were injured.
