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| Nagrota attack: Security, intelligence agencies losing sleep | | |  Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: With seven of India's brave hearts martyred in bloody encounter at Nagrota the previous day, questions are being raised on the security forces for their failure to plug the perforations and check the repeated incidents of infiltration from across the border.
Despite cameras, sensors and generators backed light towers installed on the fence, locals living close to the border say that the security forces still rely on beer bottles tied together on the fence for alarm. Thousands of crores have been spent on raising the border fencing and its maintenance over the years, but it is pity that the infiltrators have walked in at will and struck even at army installations and even beheaded our soldiers.
"At most places on the border, you can see beer bottles tied together in twos and threes, which are used by the border guards as alarm" revealed a border dweller, questioning the primitive methods of keeping vigil. "We are told that the government spends so much on keeping the fence intact and maintaining the sanctity of the borders, but there has been continuous increase in the incidents of infiltration, there is need to fix the accountability for every infiltration" he said expressing anguish.
"It is a known fact that the IB and the LoC that separate India and Pakistan run through very difficult terrain and checking infiltration by the trained and indoctrinated terrorist cadres of militant organizations aided and supported by the Pak army is difficult preposition, but time has come when proper investigations should be carried out and accountability fixed for each incident" said a senior police officer, pleading not to be named.
The recent militant attack on an army unit of 16 corps HQ at Nagrota the previous day had brought the security and intelligence grid of the army and other security agencies under scanner. The preliminary investigations and the material found with the slain terrorists who were killed in the encounter has already established that the militants were Pakistanis; but what has raised many a hackles is the suspicion that they had infiltrated some time ago and were staying close to their target, with the support of their local contact. Both these leads have left the security agencies including Police very restless and uncomfortable.
While the Army Chief General Dalbir Suhag who visited the unit after the attacks shall have a lot of explanation to do, the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar who had been issuing statements mired in complacency after the surgical strikes shall also have to cut a sorry figure before the Opposition during the ongoing session of the Parliament. |
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