September 25
The Jammu Kashmir government on Tuesday has finally accepted that “some” special police officers (SPOs) has resigned from their Police jobs to avoid the brunt of Militant attacks.
State chief secretary BVR Subrahmanyam said there have been “negligible” cases of SPO resignations and the cases are confined to South Kashmir, while rest of the valley is peaceful adding that there were 30,000 SPOs in Jammu Kashmir and the number of them resigning is very negligible.
He said that the SPOs have been instructed about their personal safety while the government is in process of enhancing their honorarium which had been increased from 3000 to six thousand, but it shall be increased further.
On September 21, three Policemen were killed in Shopian after which a series of Police resignations begun, reportedly more than 33 SPOs announced their resignations in public domain including Masjids.
However the Ministry of Home Affairs in India had denied that any resignations had been made.