Muhammad Mukaram
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 5: Srinagar areas witnessed intense frisking for the second consecutive day causing inconvenience to the people.
Police, SoG and army had laid nakas at several places in Srinagar including the highway stretch and were frisking every vehicle thoroughly, reports said.
Reports said the police and SoG men, some of them with their faces covered, stopped vehicles at Sempora on National Highway where they had placed a barricade. "They were stopping almost every vehicle, especially small vehicles and checking the identity of travelers," reports added.
"We saw police and SoG men stopping vehicles at Athwajan near Pantha Chowk early in the morning as we were travelling to South Kashmir from Srinagar," said acommuter.
The police, however, said that frisking was a routine matter and they had inputs about movement of militants. "The inputs, however, were not specific," they said.
A senior police official, wishing not to be named said that there were some leads that given the "return of normalcy" and the rise in the flow of pedestrian movement and private vehicles, militants may travel from villages and enter into city to carry out a big strike," he said.
"Since all the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are already on, we mobilised our men to carry out a routine frisking amid directions to keep an eye on the suspects."
However, Police had laid nakas at various places and while policemen were maintaining a tight vigil across the city. Intense frisking was going on for the second consecutive day at different places like Zero Bridge, Moulana Azad Road, Jehangir Chowk, and also near the fly-over. |
