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| Govt seeks additional forces from centre | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 1: The state Government has requested the centre to send at least 20 companies of paramilitary forces which were required for tackling the current wave of violence in the Kashmir valley.
Official sources said that during the two months of violence and stone pelting about 300 security personnel, including 160 during the last three days, were injured which has warranted reinforcement of CRPF. According to these sources, since the incidents of violence had started spreading to the remote rural belts also there was need for deploying additional forces for maintaining law and order.
Police sources confirmed that the existing strength of the police and the CRPF, deployed in various areas of the valley, was quite small when compared to the level of violence resorted to by large groups of people. The sources said that even after police and CRPF companies had been brought from the Jammu region there was need for strengthening the security grid which could be done by deploying additional forces by the centre.
One senior police officer said that since the additional forces deployed for Amarnath duty were expected to be free by the end of this month the state needed immediate despatch of 15 to 20 companies of the CRPF from the centre. He said intelligence reports had revealed that besides the separatists, agencies across the border and the political detractors of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, were trying to use all the resources at their command for inciting people to indulge in bigger acts of violence.
The office said that there was need for upgrading the security ring round vital Government installations because militants were planning to goad the protesters to attack Government offices, police stations, vans and CRPF pickets. He said that in the context of these developments the centre has been requested to despatch additional companies of the paramilitary forces.
He explained that there was no other way for the centre except to concede the state Government's demand because the senior functionaries of the Government are opposed to calling in the Army. Explaining the rationale behind it the police said that entrusting law and order duties to the Army could be risky because the soldiers do not have the training and weapons for handling protesters and stone pelters.
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