DGP: Anti-militancy operations to be intensified in Valley

Tribune News Service

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Srinagar, May 5

Amid rise in attacks, J&K’s Director-General of Police Dilbag Singh on Tuesday said anti-militancy operations would be intensified.

Security forces have suffered massive casualties since April and at least 20 security men have been killed in the line of duty in Kashmir. While 18 security men were killed in militant actions, two soldiers were killed in a ceasefire violation in Kashmir.

“The anti-militancy operations are going on and security arrangements will be further strengthened. In the coming time operations will be intensified further,” the DGP said while talking to reporters at the wreath-laying ceremony of the three CRPF men who were killed in a militant attack in Wanigam Handwara, on Monday evening. “During operations sometimes we (security forces) too bear losses,”

Singh said wherever forces got information, anti-militancy operations were launched and militants were being chased. “We will continue to chase them (militants),” Singh said.

While three CRPF men were killed in the militant attack in Handwara on Monday evening, the militants also decamped with two rifles of the slain CRPF men, according to officials. Soon after the shooting, security forces cordoned the area to trace the attackers, but they failed to make any contact with them.