SAMBA/JAMMU, April 3 -- Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police R R Swain on Wednesday pledged to put an end to criminal activities in the Union Territory as he led a wreath laying ceremony for slain sub-inspector Deepak Sharma in Samba district.

Sharma lost his life in an encounter with gangsters inside a hospital premises in nearby Kathua district late Tuesday night. A wanted criminal, Vasudev, who headed 'Shannu gang' was killed in the gunfight."Jammu police has taken its fight against narcotics and gangsterism to a new level in the recent past.we will go at it hammer and tongs to finish the menace as attempts are being made to set up a Punjab-type criminal syndicate," Swain told reporters as the force paid tributes to the fallen...