| SoPs being framed to prevent attacks on highway, say top security officials | | | ISHTIYAQ AHMAD
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: Concerned over the growing attacks on security forces on the Kashmir highways, top security officials Tuesday said that new Standard Operating Procedure (SoPs) are being framed to prevent highway attacks.
The officials while speaking to Early Times said that a security review meeting was on cards soon to discuss highway attacks and to frame a SoP to prevent loss of security personnel.
“New SoPs are being framed and it won’t be feasible to divulge them at this juncture due to security reasons,” said one of the top officials wishing not to be named.
He, however, said that the situation was well under control and there was no need to worry.
IG CRPF for operations, Deepak Rattan has said that focus of the SoPs will ensure militants don’t succeed in killing CRPF men deployed on highways as part of the Road Opening Parties (ROPs). “CRPF is primarily responsible for the RoPs and clearance of highways in Kashmir. So there will be a level of extra alertness to foil militants’ designs on highways,” he said, adding that “any retaliation by forces on highways can lead to civilian casualties, which our men are avoiding.”
Sources in the security grid said that in the next two days, a high level security review will take place in Srinagar to discuss threadbare the attacks by militants on highways and other busy areas of the region while strategy will be devised to prevent killing of security forces’ personnel if militants try to target forces.
Pertinently last week, two CRPF men were killed and three others sustained bullet injuries when two-bike borne militants fired at them at Kandizaal area of Pampore in Srinagar outskirts. Before that, militants had attacked a police party on August 14 at Nowgam byepass in Srinagar killing two policemen.
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