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Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 1: Police authorities believe that Monday's shootout and grenade attack at Lal Chowk and Batamaloo in Srinagar ,in which two CRPF jawans were killed and 25 were wounded,was the handiwork of Lashkar-i-Toiba activists.
A senior police officer posted in Srinagar today said that in order to mislead the security agencies the Lashkar had manipulated the story in which Jamait-ulMujahideen claimed responsibility for the Lal Chowk shootout.He said that during the two-month long "intifada"(peoples resistence),which had been engineered by the separatists,had allowed an opportunity to Lashka-i-Toiba to extend their bases in Srinagar city and other towns where the areas had been sanitised against militancy.He said that though the separatists had staged protest demonstrations in prot est against the election and the Shopian r ape and murder incident militants,especially those belonging to Lashkar-i-Toiba,succeeded in carving out hideouts in various places in Srinagar city.
The officer said that besides this Lashkar took the advantage of the fluid political situation and started fresh recruitment drive. He said that a large number of young boys had been enrolled as activists of Lashkar.In reply to a question the office said that during the peoples' resistence security forces had been instructed to suspend their operations against the militants so that the security scenario was not adversely affected.
He said that the polic suspect the hand of eight to 10 boys behind the shootout and the blast.He said after the preliminary reports established their involvement they would be arrested.In r eply to another question the police officer said that those who were suspected by the police of their involvement in the shootout and grenade explosion were under surveillance.
Field r eports have revealed that agencies across the LOC were providing material and moral support to Lashkar activists in infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir from Nepal.These Lashkar men travel to nepal on valid documents.They do not carry any weapons and required weapons and ammunition are provided to them once they land in Jammu and Kashmir.The state Government has conveyed to the centre its concern over the way militants,trained in Pakistan,were being pushed into Jammu and Kashmir from Nepal.The state authorities want the centre to take up the issue with the Nepalese Government so that screening on the Indo-Nepal border was further tightened.(eom)
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