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Early Times Report
SRINAGAr, Nov 14: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's crackdown on black money has started reaping benefits in restive Kashmir as incidents of stone pelting have reduced phenomenally since the day the demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes was invoked last week.
While the police handouts on Kashmir situation have been stating that no incidents of stone pelting were reported from anywhere in the last few days, officials said a major reason of sudden reduction in violence was that the "money channels" of inciting violence have been sealed.
"Basically there were credible inputs that the separatists and their Pakistani-handlers were pumping in money to keep the pot boiling and most of such transactions would take place in big currency notes as the stone-pelter would charge at least Rs 500 per day. But now as the circulation of these notes has been banned, the business of stone pelting is almost over," explained a police official.
The reduction in incidents of stone pelting is understood to have vindicated the stand of the central government that Pakistan was fueling in money into Kashmir through various Hawala channels.
"But the ban on big currency notes has closed all such shops of selling violence in Kashmir," said the police official.
Interestingly, the general public in Kashmir is thinking on similar lines. The relative calm in the Valley has become a topic of discussion on the social networking websites.
"First Friday of this 4 month period when no tear gas shells were heard around here. Someone is running low on real cash," wrote a prominent business from Kashmir, who is into IT sector, on his Facebook wall.
In the past, several complaints had cropped up that separatists were paying stone pelters and other anti-national elements. In one such video released by electronic media, a stone pelting youth captured by security forces was seen confessing that he would regularly get money from Hurriyat leaders for resorting to stone pelting.
Security analysts believe that Kashmir will remain largely calm in the coming days as miscreants will run short of money to keep their network operational. "There could be still some residual money with them, once that is over, this paid stone pelting will be over," said an official, who has been tracking developments in Kashmir for the past over two decades.
Kashmir has been on the boil since July 8 when militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani and his two colleagues were killed.
While the government has been struggling to restore law and order, the demonetization has brought a sudden sigh of relief. |
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