The Union Home Ministry has reportedly advanced the deployment of the remaining companies of paramilitary forces for the annual Amarnath yatra and also directed the strengthening of the police system in the Kashmir valley Kashmir to check the surge in targeted killings, Daily Excelsior reported.
Quoting sources, the report said that out of 350 additional companies of paramilitary forces sanctioned by the Union Home Ministry for Shri Amarnath Ji annual yatra, 150 have already reached Jammu Kashmir while 200 others were to be deployed between June 10 and 20.
“Deployment of these companies is now being advanced and they will be in place well before June 15. Besides Shri Amarnath yatra, deployment of additional companies of paramilitary forces will also help the Government in containing targeted killings,” sources said.
Some of the companies will be likely used to carry out “aggressive'” anti-militancy operations, they added.
The Home Ministry has also directed the Jammu Kashmir administration to enhance the presence of police personnel at Police Stations and Police Posts to carry out search operations and effective patrolling to maintain surveillance on militants. “The Home Ministry is reported to have called for the aggressive role of Police Stations and Police Posts in fighting militancy,” sources said.
They added that some more decisions to act tough against the militancy in the Kashmir valley have also been conveyed to the Jammu Kashmir administration and Police.
The meeting comes in the wake of terrorists carrying out targeted killings, including a woman teacher hailing from the Samba district of the Jammu region at Kulgam on Tuesday and a Bank Manager hailing from Rajasthan in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district today.