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Rajouri and Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir

Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were issued and mobile internet services suspended in Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts of Rajouri and Poonch after some unidentified masked men set fire to two shops and two vehicles in Mendhar town of Poonch district in the early hours of Saturday.

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Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were issued and mobile internet services suspended in Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts of Rajouri and Poonch after some unidentified masked men set fire to two shops and two vehicles in Mendhar town of Poonch district in the early hours of Saturday.

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