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Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10
Senior police functionaries have indicated that the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir does not warrant reduction in either troops or the paramilitary forces. Reports said that the Government has received information about the plan of agencies across the LoC regarding escalating the level of violence and scare.
As per the high placed sources in police department the agencies across the border have engaged professional guides for assisting militants in sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. They said these agencies are keen to push in as many groups of militants as possible in shortest possible time. In this context sources referred to over 30 infiltration bids made on the LoC during the last six months across the state and added that as per official records more than 20 infiltrators had been killed so far.
Sources also said that the second plan of the agencies is to equip militants, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, with sophisticated weapons so that they were successful in attacking security pickets and posts.
According to these intelligence reports militants have been infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir from Nepal. Some of these militants travel on valid documents to Nepal without carrying weapons and ammunition but once they land in Srinagar they are provided with weapons and ammunition, sources said.
A police officer said that the recent withdrawal of some companies of CRPF was simply an exercise of reallocating for the security forces. He said that those shifted from Jammu and Kashmir had been deployed in the Naxal hit areas in the north-east and these companies were being replaced by IRP companies being brought from other states..
He said besides the disturbed security scenario the police man power was not adequate to replace troops and the paramilitary forces. He said that the state required at least 50 additional companies and "we may request the centre to sanction raising five to 10 companies per year so that within next three years we are in a position to replace troops and the CRPF by the police."
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