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| Need for utmost vigilance, but no panicky reaction | | | | While the response and reaction to the terrorists strike at Kaili Mandi Samba on early hours of Sunday, killing six persons and injuring about 12 others, with reports by the authorities that over a dozen infiltrators have sneaked into the state from across and after the killing of three at Samba, some others are hiding in the forests in Samba and Kathua districts, should be of utmost vigilance and alert, there should be no panicky reaction to the same. Whereas it enjoins upon the civilians and every good and peace abiding citizen of the state to be highly alert and watch the suspicious movements of any suspected element and without taking any chance report the same to the police or the paramilitary security forces or the army units close by the place and even nab the suspects before they are handed over to the police, utmost care should be taken that no innocent person is subjected to harassment and more so under the garb of vigilance and threat from the terrorists who have sneaked into, no personal score should settled against any person. In this respect the nabbing of three suspects by the villagers in Kathua district on Tuesday, who according to the villagers were found moving in the forests in a suspicious manner and thrashing given to them by the villagers before they were handed over to the police is a matter of dispute whether the reaction of the villagers was genuine or panicky. On search of the suspects by the police they were found carrying Rs 2.5 lakh cash with them which obviously makes them suspect, but their statement on interrogation that they were on genuine business of selling Kashmiri shawls in the area, if really so, proves their innocence. However, it is a matter of doubt that these so called Kashmiri shawl merchants should be found in connection with their genuine business in the remote village of Kathua district, where people can hardly be expected to have money enough to purchase costly Kashmiri shawls, which fetched them Rs 2.5 lakh in cash, Yet before reaching at any conclusion all aspects of the case must be thoroughly examined and in depth interrogation of the suspects should be conducted. In case they are found innocent having no evil intension but doing genuine merchants, only victims of the suspicious eyes of the villagers, who are obviously alert in the wake of statement by the authorities that some infiltrators have entered the forest in Kathua district and can be feared to strike finding an opportunity, they should be spared any harassment. In nutshell while there is dire need for utmost vigilance, leaving nothing to chance, yet there should be no panicky reactions and utmost care should be taken that no innocent person becomes the victims of unfounded suspicion and get harassment at our hands. |
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