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| MILITANCY LOWEST IN DECADE | | Hurriyat leader involved in Sheikh’s killing: Khoda | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 25: Immediately a day after the elections are over, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have come with stunning revelation –a separatist leader is involved in killing of Peoples League chairman Sheikh Abdul Aziz.
Shaikh was killed during the ‘Muzaffarabad Chalo march’ taken out by the separatists in August. The Police and CRPF were though charged by people for his killing when they opened fire to quell demonstration but the Police had once claimed that militants too had fired some shots. The matter was, however, rounded off in view of sensitivity of the situation then prevailing in Kashmir.
Taking all by surprise, the DGP Kuldeep Khoda today said that Shabir Ahmad Shah was involved in the killing of Hurriyat Conference leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz during Muzaffarabad Chalo march on August 11.
"The police will shortly come up with the evidence regarding the involvement of Shabir Shah in the death of Sheikh Aziz at Tchahal during Muzaffarabad Chalo march on August 11," DGP said while addressing a news conference at Humhama Thursday morning. "Shah is currently under arrest not under detention," he added.
Khoda said that militant violence in Jammu and Kashmir is at an all-time low in 2008 since the insurgency erupted in this Himalayan border state in 1989 with a 40 per cent dip in the militancy-related incidents as compared to 2006 and 2007.
As against the figure of 286 dead last year, which included 164 civilians, the number of people killed in 2008 was 174, with 89 civilians. However, one jawan laid down his life while killing four militants in the state.
The Amarnath land row cost the state dear as 51 people lost their lives and 1473 were wounded in the two-month-long agitation.
Khuda said that for the first time in the nearly two-decade-old history of militancy in the state, the number of such incidents came below the 4-digit figure around 703, which indicates a 40 per cent drop in the incidents as compared to 2006 and 2007 when the figure was 1667 and 1092 respectively.
He said the highest number of militancy-related incidents was witnessed in 1995 when it touched 5946.
Giving details about the killings, he said 89 civilians were killed in different militancy-related incidents this year as against 387 in 2006 and 164 in 2007.
Similarly, only ten state police personnel lost their lives this year against 49 in 2006 and 18 in 2007 while ten Village Defence Committee (VDC) members and Special Police Officers (SPOs) were killed against 31 in 2006 and 12 last year.
However, 65 security force personnel laid down their lives in 2008 as against 102 in 2006 and 92 last year.
Security forces also achieved major success and killed 350 militants in the state, including top commanders of different outfits, during 2008.
Mr Khuda said both the regions of the state--Kashmir and Jammu -- witnessed protests during the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) land row agitation.
He said 42 people in Kashmir and nine in Jammu lost their lives during the two-month-long agitation. As many as 1473 people-- 979 in the Kashmir valley and 494 in Jammu were also injured during the agitation.
As many as 333 state police and paramilitary forces personnel were also injured during the agitation -- 182 in Jammu and 151 in the Kashmir valley.
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