Number of active militants lesser as compared to previous years
Jammu : Terming the killing of twenty-two militants in nine separate operations in the last two weeks a major success for security forces, Director General of Police (DGP) Jammu and Kashmir, Dilbagh Singh Monday said that six top commanders have been eliminated who were involved in various terror-related crimes.
Addressing a press conference at Police headquarters Jammu, Dilbagh Singh said that in nine separate operations in the last two weeks, twenty-two militants have been eliminated which is a major success for forces and depicts close synergy with which police, army, CRPF, other forces, and intelligence agencies are working.
He said that besides the elimination of militants, police in Awantipora also foiled a bid of some anti-social elements to push some innocent youth in militancy.
“We have arrested such anti-social elements while innocent youth have been saved from getting involved in militancy,” DGP said.
DGP also mentioned about success of forces in which a big IED was “timely detected and destroyed” by forces.
“Militants made two attempts to trigger the explosion with this IED but failed due to alertness of forces and later IED was detected and destroyed successfully,” he said.
Further mentioning Pakistan’s involvement in militancy across Jammu and Kashmir, DGP said that Pakistani from across and their handlers on this side always make attempts to spread militancy and the Pakistan army is pushing infiltrators on this side.
“Militancy is Pak sponsored and not indigenous as projected,” Singh said while terming TRF as an attempt of militant organizations to give a local face to militancy which is not true.
“Militants belonging to TRF outfit who were killed in some operations and militants from other organizations have been identified, which shows that TRF is just an attempt to give militancy a local face.”
He also said that forces are handling law and order scenario in a proper manner with no major law and order incident has been reported in recent past.
While replying to another question regarding the number of active militants in Jammu and Kashmir, DGP said that this number is not static but dynamic which keeps on changing.
“The only thing I can say about numbers is that it is lesser as compared to the number in the last few years.”
While replying to some questions, he said that there are reports of that militants have infiltrated from the Line of Contol. “A couple of months ago, an encounter took place at Nagrota toll plaza, and later it came to fore that a group of militants had earlier infiltrated from IB,” Singh said.
He further added that on May 28, a group of three militants was neutralized on LoC in Rajouri’s Nowshera and it has been learned that a group had infiltrated earlier also from the same area.
“We are investigating the reports of infiltration and are also following some infiltrators who managed to sneak in.”
The DGP further said that militancy launch pads were kept active across LoC even in winters this year and the first infiltration was reported in Keran and five infiltrators were eliminated—(KNO)
