Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police chief, Dilbag Singh on Saturday told officers to intensify investigations and strategize operations to wipe out militancy ecosystem in Kashmir, after Union Home Minister, Amit Shah stressed authorities to destroy the militancy ecosystem at the security review meeting on Thursday.
“Though contribution of Police on different fronts is being appreciated at highest levels of the country, yet we need to further improve our investigation work to uproot the ecosystem of militancy hard,” DGP told officers.
Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah also directed the same, he told forces to wipe out “terrorism” in Jammu and Kashmir through meticulous and well-planned counter-militancy operations. He also asked them to stop cross-border terrorism.
Both authorities complimented J&K Police, Army, and other government forces for the successful conduct of Hindu Holy Amarnath Pilgrimage. Islamic Holy Muharram and Independence Day celebrations and other events across Jammu and Kashmir.
Shah stressed on issues including Infiltration, militancy, timely investigation of the UAPA cases and told concerned agencies to uproot the militancy ecosystem in Kashmir. The meeting was attended by Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, senior officials of the central government and the Indian Army.
Meanwhile today, the DGP stressed for alertness and area domination for better results.
He strategized officers to prioritize the pending cases on the basis of their sensitivity and devise plans to dispose of them on merits in the shortest possible time.
The senior officers present in the meeting gave their suggestions regarding improvement in the investigation process attended by Special DG CID J&K, R.R Swain, Special DG Crime J&K, A.K Choudhary, IG CRPF Ops Kashmir, Manvinder Singh Bhatia, ADGP (Hqrs) PHQ, M.K Sinha, ADGP (Coordination) PHQ, Danesh Rana, IG CRPF Srinagar Ops Sector, Charu Sinha, ADGP Kashmir Zone Vijay Kumar, IGP Traffic J&K, Vikramjit Singh, DIG CKR Srinagar Sujit Kumar, DIG NKR, Udaybhaskar Billa, SSP Srinagar, Budgam, AlsG of PHQ attended the meeting at PHQ while DIG South Kashmir Range Abdul Jabbar. However, other SSPs of Kashmir Zone attended the meeting through video conferencing.
The dispensation has intensified war against militancy in Kashmir and the security review meet comes following attacks on security personnel, infiltration bids and targeted killings and grenade attacks.
Three infiltrators were killed by government forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kamalkote sector of Uri on Thursday. There have been at least three infiltration bids by militants from across the border in the last four days in Jammu and Kashmir.
A group of militants tried to infiltrate in the Pallanwala sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday night. Alert troops fired at them, forcing them to retreat.
On August 21, forces deployed in the Jhangar sector of Rajouri’s Naushera spotted the movement of two to three militants on the Indian side of the LoC and challenged them, officials had said in which one of the militants tried to flee, but was injured in firing and another captured alive. The two other militants managed to flee, they said.
On the intervening night of August 22 and 23, a group of two to three militants tried to infiltrate in the Lam sector of Naushera. As they moved ahead into minefields, a series of mines got activated and two militants were killed on the spot.
Militants attacked an Army camp in Rajouri district on August 11, killing four personnel. The two attackers were gunned down after the pre-dawn suicide strike that marked the return of “fidayeen” attackers to Jammu and Kashmir after more than three years.
In May, four Hindu pilgrims were killed and at least 20 injured when their bus caught fire near Katra in Jammu. Police suspect a sticky bomb might have been used to trigger the fire.
Amid attacks, the anti-militancy operations has also been intensified in Kashmir following crackdown on Over Ground Workers. In June this year, five encounters raged in a day, killing 11 militants.
As per officials, more than 118 militants including 32 foreign nationals have been killed in the Valley this year.
The government had informed Parliament that till last month, as many as 118 civilians, including five Kashmiri Pandits and 16 other Hindus and Sikhs, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in 2019.
The killings of Kashmiri Pandits triggered protests by the members of the community and demanded transfer of government employees outside Kashmir valley.
Article 370 was the autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir, abrogated on August 5, 2019 and the state was bifurcated into the Union territories.