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| DG BSF arriving today, change of guard in Samba sector likely | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 13
ET EXCLUSIVE
Finding itself on the back-foot following an apparent operational lapse in the infiltration incident, the Border Security Forces is likely to change its frontier guard, particularly in Samba sector.
Highly placed sources told EARLY TIMES here today that top brass of the BSF has taken a serious note of the lapse and the border guarding force is all set to change it key people along the International Border in Jammu region. “There is a possibility of replacing the entire force in Samba sub-sector with new people”, sources added.
The Director General of BSF AK Mitra, who has already admitted the lapse, is arriving here tomorrow to review the situation. He is slated to have a session with the top officers to understand as what went wrong in defending infiltration by militants in Samba sector.
It may be mentioned here that on Friday last the BSF had categorically denied possibility of any infiltration. Though the BSF admitted there was trouble on the frontiers the previous night but they claimed that militants’ attempt to sneak was successfully foiled.
However, in a rebuff to the BSF claimed, the militants showed two days later and wreaked a havoc in the area. Now there are conflicting claims on the number of militants who may have sneaked in.
In this back drop the Director General of BSF AK Mitra is arriving here tomorrow to review the situation and he is most likely to order changes in the operational guard of the force in Samba sub-sector.
Interestingly, after a huge and cry and clear visible of militants in the area, three days after the intrusion bid, the BSF on Monday had finally admitted that some terrorists had managed to sneak in and did not rule out reinforcements in the area. "We thought that the infiltration bid had been foiled, but if you see the entire incidents, perhaps, some people may have been able to infiltrate”, Mitra had said in New Delhi.
With the Amarnath yatra soon to begin and assembly elections slated later this year, the possibility of terrorist strikes was always there, Mitra said. Terming the Samba incident as an 'eye opener', the BSF chief said the force was 'proposing' to enhance its strength in the area.
A surprised Mitra said this was the first time that terrorists had managed to sneak in by cutting the border fence along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir. On the possibility of Pakistan Rangers' involvement in Friday's gunfire, he said there is 'no specific evidence' to establish the role of the Rangers.
Meanwhile, highly placed sources said the Border Security Force has launched its own internal probe to find out how the terrorists managed to enter Indian Territory. A detailed report of the incident is being prepared and a list of items required for strengthening vigilance on the border is being drawn up, sources added. |
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