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| DGP hints at Separatists- Militants- stone pelters nexus | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 9 : The Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Friday claimed that dissent politics in the state had a close co-ordination with the operating militant groups. Boycott in North Kashmir was not observed by the people but was enforced upon them with the 'criminal intimidation', said Director General of Police Ashok Prasad, adding that the militants, dissent politicians and stone throwers in unison carried threatened people not to go near to the booths. Prasad maintained that the appeal for the boycott of polls is unobjectionable but the same was carried out with the criminal intimidation. "The fear psychosis was created in the entire area that if people vote, they will be scorned and attacked." He said that the militants, dissent politicians and stone throwers worked for a single point agenda and that all three were interconnected vis-à-vis the poll boycott. "Separatists issue the strike call, stone throwers enforce that and militants glue threat posters. What we are seeing on ground is the threat perception being created in the minds of people," he said. He maintained further that the police are acting only in accordance to the law and when the law says that the stone pelting is illegal- it has to be stopped and that is the job of the police . "The people who are objecting to the police action against stone throwers should contest elections and pass the law in the assembly to legalize the stone pelting," he said.
The polling was held in North Kashmir's Varmul Lok Sabha seat on May 7 amid clashes and shutdown reported from various areas of the region. The stone pelting incidents were reported from the various areas of North Kashmir on Wednesday. |
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