Home Minister Amit Shah reviews situation, security in J&K

India

oi-PTI

New
Delhi,
Aug
25:
Union
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
on
Thursday
reviewed
the
situation
prevailing
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
including
the
security
arrangements
along
the
border
with
Pakistan,
officials
said.

National
Security
Adviser
(NSA)
Ajit
Doval,
Jammu
and
Kashmir
Lieutenant
Governor
Manoj
Sinha,
Union
Home
Secretary
Ajay
Bhalla
and
senior
officials
of
the
Centre
and
the
Union
Territory
administration
attended
the
meeting
chaired
by
Shah.

The
meeting
discussed
the
security
situation
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
an
official
said.

The
security
review
comes
following
attacks
on
security
personnel,
infiltration
bids
and
killings
in
the
Union
Territory.

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Three
infiltrators
were
killed
by
security
personnel
along
the
Line
of
Control
(LoC)
in
the
Kamalkote
sector
of
Uri
on
Thursday.

There
have
been
at
least
three
infiltration
bids
by
terrorists
from
across
the
border
in
the
last
four
days
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir.

A
group
of
terrorists
tried
to
infiltrate
into
the
Indian
territory
in
the
Pallanwala
sector
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir
on
Tuesday
night.
Alert
troops
fired
at
them,
forcing
them
to
retreat.

On
August
21,
soldiers
deployed
in
the
Jhangar
sector
of
Rajouri’s
Naushera
spotted
the
movement
of
two
to
three
terrorists
on
the
Indian
side
of
the
LoC
and
challenged
them,
the
officials
said.

One
of
the
terrorists
tried
to
flee,
but
was
injured
in
firing
by
the
soldiers
and
captured
alive.
The
two
other
terrorists
managed
to
flee,
the
officials
said.

On
the
intervening
night
of
August
22
and
23,
a
group
of
two
to
three
terrorists
tried
to
infiltrate
in
the
Lam
sector
of
Naushera.
As
they
moved
ahead
into
minefields,
a
series
of
mines
got
activated
and
two
ultras
were
killed
on
the
spot.

Terrorists
attacked
an
Army
camp
in
Rajouri
district
on
August
11,
killing
four
soldiers.
The
two
attackers
were
gunned
down
in
a
shootout
after
the
pre-dawn
suicide
strike
that
marked
the
return
of
“fidayeen”
attackers
to
Jammu
and
Kashmir
after
more
than
three
years.

The
government
had
informed
Parliament
that
till
last
month,
as
many
as
118
civilians,
including
five
Kashmiri
Pandits
and
16
other
Hindus
and
Sikhs,
were
killed
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir
since
the
abrogation
of
Article
370
of
the
Constitution
in
2019.

The
killings
of
Kashmiri
Pandits
triggered
protests
by
the
members
of
the
community,
who
demanded
enhanced
security
and
transfer
of
government
employees
to
safer
locations.

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In
May,
four
Hindu
pilgrims
were
killed
and
at
least
20
injured
when
their
bus
caught
fire
near
Katra
in
Jammu.
Police
suspect
a
sticky
bomb
might
have
been
used
to
trigger
the
fire.

Article
370,
which
gave
a
special
status
to
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
was
abrogated
on
August
5,
2019
and
the
state
was
bifurcated
into
the
Union
territories
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir
and
Ladakh.