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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 9
Senior police officers, deployed in Srinagar, favour clear instructions to the security agencies on dealing with the current law and order problem strictly lest the situation assumed alarming dimensions. Sources said that some officers and senior politicians have observed that the Chief Minister must convene an all party meeting where the current law and order situation could be discussed and remedial measures were formulated.
Number of Congress leaders too wanted the Chief Minister to convene an all party meeting and he could even invite some moderate separatists to the meeting so that some solution to the crisis was evolved, sources said. They further added that these high chaired officers have conveyed to the ruling coalition leadership that while strict action was called for against any act of human rights violations but the problem of unrest and violence kicked up by "vested interests" needed to be handled with a heavy hand.
A senior police officer on proximity but assured anonymity said that the police have been forced to watch the situation like passive spectators as the unwritten instructions to use minimum force and ensure that there was no human rights violations have put the law and order maintaining agencies in a crisscross. He said that such instructions have forced the police and other security agencies to be on the defensive even during provocations from the protesters. ‘The Government, especially the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah should not succumb under pressure from the protesters and once it happened there will be no end to violence. Meantime another senior officer said that the Chief Minister should convene an all party meeting where the current law and order situation could be discussed and remedial measures were formulated. Number of Congress leaders too wanted the Chief Minister to convene an all party meeting and he could even invite some moderate separatists to the meeting so that some solution to the crisis was evolved.
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