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| Troops to assist police in ensuring incident free R-Day in J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 22: In the face of withdrawal of 52 CRPF companies from Jammu and Kashmir for deployment in UP and Punjab during the upcoming Assembly elections the army was approached to assist the state authorities, including the police, in upgrading the security grid before, and after the Republic Day celebrations.
Official sources said that a few companies of troops were being deployed in and the Maulana Azad stadium in Jammu, the venue for the main Republic Day celebrations. Since the Governor, N N Vohra would be unfurling the tricolour and preside over the function in presence of Chief Minister, other ministers, top Army and Police officers besides senior bureaucrats, the services of Army experts were being utilized for sanitizing the stadium and its immediate surroundings against any explosive material. According to these, both police and Army commandos were being deployed in and outside the stadium and the flyover overlooking the stadium is being brought under thick security cover. Additional police nakas were being set up in the city of Jammu and its peripheral areas for monitoring the movement of people. The naka teams have been directed to carry out frisking of people and checking of private vehicles in order to ensure that no explosive material was carried close to the stadium. Security grid was being strengthened in Srinagar too with the assistance of troops. Efforts were being made by the administration in all the 22 districts to ensure that the Republic Day celebrations were held without any unsavoury incident. |
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