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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU/NEW DELHI, June 28: Under fire for allegedly shooting on a mob which stoned its Kapra headquarters at Sopore in Kashmir Sunday, CRPF today washed its hands of the fatal shootings and said "its role is only to assist police". In New Delhi, CRPF director general Vikram Srivastava, who was keeping a close vigil on Sopore developments, refuted allegations of high-handedness in tackling protestors at Sopore and said CRPF was working along with the J&K police. "The CRPF is working along with the magistrate and the J&K police," he added.
Asked to comment on the allegations of high-handedness, Srivastava said, "The local superintendent of police (Sopore) is there." "Our men are there to assist him," he added. Two persons were killed in separate incidents in Kashmir today when security forces allegedly opened fire at mobs protesting the death of a youth in firing in the apple town of Sopore yesterday. Local politicians and the state police have alleged it was the CRPF which had opened fire.
Srivastava, however, claimed that his force had not fired a single bullet since morning in violence-hit Sopore. "No ammunition has been fired by CRPF at the funeral procession. Our basic position is that we are there to assist state police," he added.
He said the CRPF personnel were helping out the state police, civil administration and forces.
Srivastava said CRPF personnel had not fired a single bullet Monday during the funeral procession of Bilal Ahmed. He, however, said forces fired teargas shells to control the mob.
He reversed the allegation by saying that the mob had fired on CRPF personnel. Srivastava said CRPF had ordered an inquiry into the incident. Fresh clashes were reported in Sopore this morning after a protester was killed in what is alleged to be CRPF firing. Meanwhile, a CRPF officer said CRPF had no option but to open fire to secure the post, where local police had taken shelter, from the stone-pelting mob.
The paramilitary force in a statement said that at 12.30 pm, a mob of about 700 attacked a CRPF company location at Kapra theatre located outside Sopore town on Kupwara road.
The post had only the minimal strength of men for attending to camp security as the other men were away on duty. The J&K police had deployed a section of unarmed men for law and order duty at the naka, outside the company location. Sopore town, home to pro-Pakistan hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was under curfew for the last two days and people had staged demonstrations defying prohibitory orders. |
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