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| Let security agencies stop washing dirty linen in public | | | Notwithstanding the fact that the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir has improved the current political and security environment certainly calls for better coordination among various security and intelligence agencies.Well misgivings among the security agencies can surface because of the delicate situation they are placed in but it does not warrant that the security agencies should wash their dirty linen in public.During the last 20 years security personnel have had to face series of odds because the militancy related violence has cost lives of several thousand men of the police and paramilitary forces besides the troops in the sensitive northern state.Several thousand of the security personnel have been injured in gun fire,grenade and IED explosions.Usually men of various security and intelligence agencies have carried out their assigned tasks without asking questions or without casting aspersions on one agency or the other.It is because of this
coordination that these agencies have achieved success in tackling the activities of the terrorists.There have been occasions when men of the different security agencies have had varied analysis of the situation.On other occasions one security agency held another responsible for any failure of the antiinsurgency operations.Invariably the Army and the police have had different reports to dish out as far as the level of infiltration from across the LOC is concerned.Usually the Army authorities would dispute the infiltration figures prepared by the police.But these differences have not been voiced in the open.During the official meetings the two sides would exchange their notes and express their views irrespective of the fact these views were divergent in content.The Army authorities would patiently listen to the police reports on infiltration and later dispute some points if it was called for.So far so good.But recently reports on CRPF authorities
blaming the state police for its "ineffectiveness" in dealing with the rising incidents of stone pelting against the security forces in the Kashmir valley have been unfortunate.There is no doubt that the valley witnessed during the month of February unprecedented incidents of stone pelting against the security forces.It is again beyond any doubt that a large number of men of the CRPF and the police were injured in stone hits.Senior functionaries of the CRPF are said to have sent a communication to the state Government in which they have alleged lack of action on the part of the police against the stone pelting crowds.Reports said that top CRPF officials met the Governor,N.N.Vohra with a request that he should take a serious look of the matter.According to the CRPF officials last year over 1,000 security personnel were injured in stone pelting and hence they wanted the police in particular and the state Government in general to initiate strict measures
against those found indulging in stone pelting.Surprisingly the CRPF officials have claimed credit for the action the police have taken against some stone pelters.These officials have said that the state police started taking some action only after "we took up the case with the higher authorities some months ago."It was but natural for the police to react.The Inspector General of Police,Kashmir Ranger,Farooq Ahmed has said that in 2009 there were 278 incidents of stone pelting in which 493 miscreants were arrested while 566 were detained.During the months of January and February 2010 the police have arrested 419 persons in 94 incidents.He is right when he poses a question "what else the CRPF wants us to do?"He says "we cannot go around shooting people."It is a strong reaction to equally strong and "false" allegations.It is really unfortunate that the CRPF has aired its views in public.Hope exchange of unpleasant views is never repeated as such attempts affects whatever level of coordination the security agencies have.
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