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| Near PHQ Srinagar cops prefer 'life over duty' | | 'Surrender arms without fighting militants' | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 27: In a major embarrassment for the Jammu and Kashmir Police, its jawans deployed at a police post in Hyderpora locality in Srinagar seemingly "surrendered" their arms before militants without apparently offering resistance during a recent attack.
Sources said when militants stormed the police post at a temple in Goripora area of Srinagar on the intervening night of April 25 and April 26, the policemen posted there didn't show much of resistance.
"There was no major encounter but the cops seem to be have simply surrendered their arms before a handful of militants. Had they (cops) engaged the terrorists in gunfight it wouldn't have taken our deployments more than five minutes to reach them with support," a senior police official told Early Times.
Sources said government has started inquiry into the incident.
A senior police official told Early Times that they have credible inputs that the cops "preferred to surrender weapons than to resist militants." "They seem to have preferred life over duty."
He said the cops were being questioned for the measures they had taken to resist the militant attack and as to how the militants sneaked into the secured premises and managed to escape.
Pertinently the police post is a few hundred yards away from the Police Headquarter. "The militant attack has come as a embarrassment for our force because our cops didn't fight them back properly that too in a fortified area close to PHQ," said a police official on the condition of anonymity.
Snatching of weapons from police is nothing new in Kashmir. Official figures reveal that around 200 weapons were snatched from police in the last three years alone.
In the wake of weapon snatching incidents, the state government has already directed the police to remain extra-vigilant so that "anti-national elements do not succeed in snatching weapons."
Sources said the government is planning strict action against jawans who surrender their weapons before militants.
When contacted a police official said the cops had offered stiff resistance but the number of militants was big and that the gunmen overpowered the men in uniform.
He said the investigations were underway. "If our men our found guilty they will be placed under suspension." |
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