Early Times Report
Jammu, July 20: Perturbed over resurgence of terror and Jihadist-Wahhabist activity in Kashmir valley and Muslim-dominated parts of Jammu division, Omar Abdullah's government is likely bring back senior IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police (Armed) S.M. Sahai as the incharge of dealing with the new brand of militancy and the stark threat of 2008 and 2010-type street agitation ahead of the next Assembly elections.
Sahai could be designated as ADG Law and Order, making him responsible for curbing militancy and the civil violent protests in any part of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. According to highly placed sources, Sahai could be assigned with coordinating all anti-terror operations with the field agencies and security forces. IGPs of both, Kashmir and Jammu, divisions would have to report to him, who, in turn, would receive command and advise from Director General of Police K Rajinder Kumar. Discharged from hospital, DGP is now recovering at home in Srinagar.
Sources, however, made it clear that the new structure would not a stop-gap arrangements in the DGP's absence. Some changes at senior level in Jammu division were also under the government's consideration.
According to sources, some District SPs, who have failed to deliver, particularly in the face of the emerging challenge of the ultra-radical terrorism, could be replaced---some of them by the 2001 batch KPS officers. Government has taken a strong note of the Srinagar Jamia Masjid becoming a base camp for ISIS which does not tolerate moderate ideological sects of Islam calls for mass murder of those professing faith in saints and shrines.
On Friday, July 11, Kashmir valley's first ISIS flag appeared on the main entrance of Jamia Masjid where the separatist Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq delivers a religious sermon at the afternoon prayers on every Friday. On July 18, at least six ISIS flags were hoisted at the same place by masked supporters of the Jihadist-Wahhabist ideology and the Caliphate.
In some districts, SSPs are said to have released hardcore stone-pelters on just a phone call from the mainstream, even separatist, politicians and supporters of militancy. According to reports, different separatist groups are silently making desperate attempts to create the situation of total boycott in the forthcoming Assembly elections. |
