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| 38 CCTV cameras en-route Katra shrine defunct for 2 years | | | Ajay Sharma
KATRA, Nov 26: Insensitive to the security of pilgrims visiting Vaishno Devi Shrine at Katra, police administration is still awaiting some mishap to take place as 38 Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras installed for the surveillance are lying defunct for the last more than two years.
Sources told Early Times that as many as 38 CCTV cameras had been installed en-route from Katra to Bhawan (Cave Shrine) for keeping close surveillance of the yatra to avert any untoward incident so that yatra may go on smoothly but unlike police department seems in deep slumber.
"Around three district SPs have been changed in the District Reasi during last two years but nobody felt the need to take strong step to make these CCTVs functional," they said further adding that authorities concerned have already received many terror threats from the militants to strike on shrine but the threats have not been heeded.
Due to defunct CCTVs, hundreds of complaints regarding thefts lodged with Katra Police Statation and Bhawan Police Station remained untraced, sources said.
District SP, Mohammad Shareef Chouhan, when contacted said "I have already sent two letters to the higher authority demanding immediate action to make CCTVs functional in the interest of public." |
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