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| DGP predicts peaceful summer in valley | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 11: Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda today expressed hope that the Kashmir Valley would experience incident free summers as the State police have geared itself to deal with the situation by applying new methods.
“We have planned a joint strategy to ensure violence free summers in Kashmir… Minimum of force and introduction of non-lethal weaponry will be the keys to disperse the protesting crowds.” DGP Khoda told media persons outside the State Legislative Assembly.
“We have increased the man power to maintain law and order and in this direction a special training has been imparted to five battalions which would try to diffuse the tension by using non-lethal equipments.” he added
DGP informed that to get a first hand knowledge of the latest equipments he and Principal Secretary Home along with a group of police officers visited BSF Academy, at Tekanpur to access the non lethal weapons.
“We went through the non-lethal weapons and suggested some modifications to the equipments including tear gas shells, smoke shells, laser guns to be used during agitations and riots like situations…. Soon the authorities at BSF Academy would hand over the weapons to us after alterations.” Khoda said
DGP further said that he is optimistic that calm and peace prevail in Valley during ensuing summers but if there is any law and order problem, it will be dealt effectively.
Khoda said, “We want to ensure this time around that students’ career do not get suffered due to violent incidents…. Traders, taxi wallahs, house boat operators could earn their livelihood in a peaceful atmosphere and do not have to bear the brunt of disturbances arising out of violence. At the same time it will be ensured that tourism do not get a beating that it experienced during last year’s unrest.”
“We would like to apply minimum force to normalize the situation so as to avoid inconvenience to the people but in case the situation deteriorates, we will deal it with firm hand, however, it would be ensured that there are less of losses.” he added.
When asked about the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant Sajjad Afghani’s killing in an encounter Kashmir yesterday, DGP said, "The killed terrorist was chief of Jaish and was active in Kashmir for the last several years… The slain terrorist was involved in a number of killings of security forces and para military forces.”
“He had a plan to carry out an attack in Srinagar but Police’s timely action foiled his nefarious designs… With his elimination Jaish has suffered a jolt which is trying hard to be active again.” he added
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