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| Valley administration chooses to follow separatist calendar | | | et plus report
Srinagar, Mar 10: The Valley has been on the edge for the last many days and its immediate fallout is being witnessed on the tourism industry which is the second largest supporter of Valley's economy after horticulture.
During scores of stone pelting incidents the state police said left 600 hundred police and CRPF personnels injured, many tourist carrying vehicles have also been damaged. Sources in the tourism industry have said most of the tourist bookings for the coming two months have already been cancelled because of the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley.
Ironically, the state administration has been following the separatists while trying to tackle the deteriorating law and order situation. Whenever the newly constituted Mutahida Majlise Mushawarat (MMM) of separatist leaders announces protests and marches the state administration responds by clamping down curfews and imposing restrictions in the Valley. The day the MMM asks people to resume normal activities, the state administration promptly obliges by lifting curfew and other restrictions.
In a perverse manner, the reaction and response by the state administration somewhere, somehow indicates that on at least a psychological level, the authority of the administration has become
subservient to the dictates of the separatists in the Valley. No administration worth its salt can be seen acting as if its directions come not from the democratically elected government in power but from those who challenge the very edifice of democracy and the integrity of the state. It is a highly unenviable and thankless situation in which the police and the CRPF are dealing with the situation.
Most of the weapons issued to deployed police and CRPF personnel have been withdrawn as part of the new SOP devised by the administration to avoid casualties during clashes. Use of alternative methods of mob control like pellet and pepper guns have come in for serious criticism by the state human rights commission that has taken a suo moto cognizance of these non-lethal weapons being used by the security forces.
Miscreants and anti-social elements arrested based on video filming and other concrete evidence gathered during stone pelting and other forms of mob violence are released immediately after their arrest as people stage Dharnas and protests demanding the release of such youth. Blocking roads, erecting unlawful barricades on roads, disallowing all bonafide traffic movement including those of ambulances and other essential services are some of the methods employed by the separatists
to force the police release miscreants and anti-social elements. Injuries to police and CRPF personnel do not make to the headlines of television news channels and the newspapers because it has become
unfashionable to speak about the human rights of men in Khaki. Given the extreme handicaps under which they are dealing with the current law and order situation in the Valley and the tendency of the
administration to follow the separatists rather than stamp down their dictates, the state police and the CRPF are virtually doing their duties with hands tied behind their backs.
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