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| Ex-militants instigated mob violence at Mendhar on Sept 15 | | BHARAT BHUSHAN | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 28:
A police investigation has found the hand of former militants and a plus 2 lecturer in the September 15 violence during anti-US and pro-Quran protests in the Mendhar town of Poonch.
A senior police officer told The Early Times that following the havoc wreaked by an infuriated mob at Mendhar on September 15 last, a secret probe was carried out by police and other state and central intelligence agencies.
It was known to them that some surrendered militants, a lecturer in government higher secondary school and a private school owner had incited the September 15 violence during which government properties and vehicles were torched by mobs, he added.
The officer, who did not want to be quoted, said all these persons were likely to be booked under relevant sections of law for waging war against the state and wantonly giving provocation to cause riots.
One of the surrendered militants, who led the violent mobs, was booked under public safety act (PSA) in 1990 after an ultras' weapon was recovered from him. He was later set free on bail.He said though they had surrendered and joined the national mainstream with a pledge to lead a peaceful life, majority of them were still maintaining contacts with active militants, especially commanders, and had been working for them in lieu of money.
"Reports also suggested that police ought to move courts for the cancellation of the bails of some ex-militants in Mendhar and Jammu as they had the potential to trigger violence and turn any situation against India to strengthen the hands of enemy agents and
anti-national forces," the officer added.
He said some ex-militants of Jammu were also under the police scanner as they had tried to give the anti-US protests a communal tinge in the winter capital city."These anti-national and vested interests were found instigating mobs to resort to violence during the recent protests against the US administration," the officer asserted.All the violent and anti-national protests during the anti-US demonstrations were clearly linked to the pan-Islamic militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, he added.
The officer said there was an urgent need to take all these "enemy agents" into preventive custody, especially on the eve of the pronouncement of the Ayodhya case.
Violence had erupted at Mendhar, when in a surge of anger stoked by the desecration of Quran in US, irate mobs had set ablaze a missionary school, court complex, tehsil complex, dak bungalow and offices of BDO, SDPO, CID special branch, treasury, forest
department, PHE department, sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), RDD and PDD.
Three protesters were killed in the police firing while at least 12 cops, including DSP Vivek Gupta, had sustained injuries in stone-pelting by the mob.
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