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| Police needs people's cooperation in nabbing subversives | | | ET Special Correspondent
Jammu | Sep 10
In the absence of any law making it mandatory for the house owners (landlords) to provide the police information about their tenants and keeping them abreast of any new tenant, hiring their house on rent and the guests staying with the tenants for short period, the police is going to launch a vigorous drive to bring home to the owners of the houses in Jammu city to thoroughly check up the antecedents of their new tenants and keep the police informed about any suspicious element among them. For this purpose the police officers at the higher level have stressed upon the incharges of police stations and police posts to frequently hold police-public meetings in various mohallas and streets.
The need for this modus operandi of policing has risen as a result of coming to light of some terrorists living in the houses of the locals as tenants, with the purpose of indulging in some subversive activity at a convenient time, while not being suspected in the meanwhile. Sustained interrogation of Nahida Altaf, Law student of Dogra Law College and her accomplice Altaf Ahmed, both Hizbul Mujahaddin militants and residents of Surankote Poonch, arrested by the police the other day, has revealed that the militants have succeeded in creating a wide network within the Jammu city and its outskirts. Nahida had been putting up in a rented accommodation at main stop Janipura while Fayyaz Ahmad Talakh who had to receive the explosives smuggled by Nahida, was putting up in a city hotel, while as per Nahida's revelations to the police an other top Hizbul Mujaheddin militant Bhatti was putting up as tenant at Subash Nagar. Similarly the Jaish-e-Mohammad commander, Saifullah Qari who was gunned down by the police in an encounter in Janipura locality of Jammu city recently and his associate Zafar Iqbal, both Pakistans were putting up at Hyderpora, Janipura, as tenants. In the past government quarters allotted to the Kashmiri government employees were used as hide outs for the terrorists who would come to Jammu for accomplishing some terrorist strike or a subversive act. But in view of the police vigilance and surveillance about any suspicion person putting up in government quarters at Janipura etc, the militants now hire accommodation as tenants in some mohallas and streets, to get well acquainted with the topography and places where they can easily strike. It may be recalled that as back as in 1990, when the militancy was at its height, the terrorists who had gunned down, a National Conference leader from Kashmir, the former Speaker of J&K Assembly, Wali Mohd. Ittoo outside Jamia Masjid, Talab Khatikan Jammu, were staying as tenants in a street adjoining the mosque and after accomplishing their task, they had mixed up with the rush of devotees, dispersed after offering Friday prayer in Jamia Masjid.
The police is also reported to have intensified regular checking in the hotels and lodges in the city. There are also reports of some staffers, particularly the bearers, who frequently visits the rooms of the occupants, are engaged by the police as their informers, besides sounding the management to keep strict watch on any suspected element, in their hotels and inform the police about the same. But the sources in the police and particularly the intelligence complain that they are handicapped in their surveillance, as they cannot frisk and keep thorough watch on the members of a particular community, to avoid any impression of the community members as a whole being suspect in the eyes of the police.
The checking at various nakas put up inside and around Jammu city has also been intensified, with frisking made more thorough. At one of the nakka near Tawi bridge, the commuters traveling by mini buses are made to come out of the vehicles, subjected to thorough frisking, with only the female and aged commuters allowed to keep sitting in the vehicles, whereas vehicles are also thoroughly checked. In the meanwhile, the high police sources have ruled out any immediate step to remove the nakkas in the city, as has been demanded by some traders bodies of Jammu. A senior police officer told Early Times that in view of the inputs that terrorists have created their wide network in and around the winter capital of the state, any let up in checking and frisking cannot be thought off.
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