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No SOG, STF in J&K after 2003 4/8/2015 11:26:25 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 8: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir today said that no Special Operation Group (SOG) or Special Task Force (STF) exists in Jammu and Kashmir since 2003. In reply to AQ. No. 71 of MLA Mohammad Akbar Lone whether the government intended to disband the SOG and STF in the state, the Minister in charge Home in its reply through Deputy Secretary to Government Home Department stated that no SFT or SOG exists in the state since 2003. "The internal arrangement of police force to carry out anti-militancy operations often referred to as SOG came to be assimilated in the regular police force in the year 2003. Since then , all the anti militancy operations are carried out under the direct command, control and supervision of District SP." Read government reply. It is pertinent to mention that former Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah after assuming the office in 1996 constituted the SOG and STF headed by Farooq Ahmed Khan to counter the arms struggle emerged in the stated post rigged 1987 election in the state. With the passage of the time, the STF and SOG comes under the direct attack of human right activists forcing Mufti Syed to close both the wings of the Jammu and Kashmir police after he (Mufti) took over the reign of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 2003 under healing touch policy of his government.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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