These new troops will give relief to those deployed here for long . DILBAG SINGH, director general of police
SRINAGAR: : New troop induction in Kashmir valley has been done, said DGP Dilbag Singh, on Friday, to allow some time to relax for troops deployed here since panchayat elections last year.
Singh was speaking in the wake of threats to the Amarnath Yatra, after a large cache of ammunition enroute to cave shrine were recovered on Friday, and there are fresh inputs of more militant violence.
The number inducting are not more than the numbers already existing here, he said. “I assure you the numbers are much smaller than what has been talked about. And they are routine requirement for replacement. There is nothing to panic about. It is a very reasonable number,” he said.
There has been panic in Valley after home ministry order last week sending 100 companies of security forces. On Thursday there were rumors of more troop induction with people fearing that something bad is going to happen to article 35 A, which confers certain rights on J&K residents. “There are inputs that violence will be increased by the militants. Keeping in view both the issues we have tried to strengthen our counter insurgency and law and order grid on the ground. These (new) troops will give some relief to the already deployed here. It is time for turnover,” he said.
“We had panchayat elections, local body polls followed by LS polls and now the yatra. The troops which came earlier did not get a chance to relax,” he said.