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| Police, paramilitary forces to intensify operations to prevent elements from derailing peace | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Police authorities have appreciated restraint adopted by men in Khaki and paramilitary forces while dealing with protesters pelting stones on the security forces in a bid to secure peoples' response to the separatist call for poll boycott in Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency.
Senior police functionaries said that despite the fact that four CRPF personnel and five policemen, including a senior officer, had been injured in stone pelting and in firing and bomb explosions the security forces adopted restraint while tackling unruly elements.
These police authorities wanted to convey to the separatists their displeasure over the way they (separatists)have been fulminating against police and CRPF whenever there is some civilian casualty or some youth suffers injuries in police firing.
Police authorities claim credit for having initiated adequate measures for encouraging voters to walk to the polling booths for casting their votes. They said that as compared to urban belts rural belts and those villages and hamlets that lie close to the LOC in Kupwara district witnessed heavy polling.
The police authorities said that separatists and militants had planned to wreck the poll process in the entire valley but adequate security bandobast had foiled their gemeplan. The result was that while Anantnag and Srinagar constituencies recorded over 26 per cent polling the percentage of polling was higher in Baramulla constituency.
Government functionaries said that nearly 60,000 security men had been deployed to provide security to voters who had come under scare by militants and by anti-poll campaigners. They said that hurling petrol bomb and forcible occupation of a polling booth near Sopore had added to the level of scare among voters. Despite this voters turned out in good numbers.
The Government circles said that on the basis of inputs from intelligence agencies troops have been told to remain alert on the LOC and police and paramilitary forces have been asked to intensify their patrolling in towns and villages for preventing militants and other subversive elements from derailing peace. |
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