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| Ban Toll Plaza encounter: Is drug mafia creating hurdles in installing full body truck scanners ? | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 20: Seven years back the J&K police had proposed installation of full body scanners at the Chakan-da-Bagh, Lakhanpur and Jawahar Tunnel to check movement of terrorists and smuggling of drugs from one place of J&K to another but the proposal is yet to be implemented. After Thursday’s incident at Ban Toll Plaza, a casual approach being adopted by the higher-ups in dealing with the drug mafia and checking movement of terrorists has once again been exposed.
Credible sources said that a proposal to install full body truck scanners was made during the tenure of DGP Ashok Prashad in the month of December 2013. Apart from installing three full body truck scanners, it was also proposed that twenty three highway patrols were required for their deployment on the Lakhanpur-Srinagar highway and the Jammu-Poonch road to increase the presenc of the police all along the routes and take care of road accidents and other crimes related to highways.
“Instead of seriously implementing these proposals, higher-ups have adopted a casual approach”, sources said and revealed that it appears that the influential drug mafia was creating hurdles in installation of these full-body scanners because this step will check smuggling of drugs from one place to another.
“Involvement of influential drug mafia in creating hurdles in installing full body scanners is not ruled out because this mafia is so powerful”, sources said and pointed out that many cops were already arrested for this involvement in narco-terrorism.
On January 31 this year, when three terrorists were killed at the same place, demand for installing full body scanners was again raised but those at the helm of the affairs adopted a casual approach. |
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