Amit Shah chairs high-level safety meet over focused killings in Kashmir

By PTI

NEW DELHI:  Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday took inventory of the safety state of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir within the wake of a sequence of focused killings within the Valley, officers mentioned.

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Army Chief General Manoj Pande, and Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha had been amongst those that attended the assembly.

The house minister reviewed the safety state of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir, a ministry official mentioned.

Security preparations for the upcoming Amarnath Yatra additionally figured within the conferences, the official mentioned.

The assembly got here after terrorists carried out a sequence of focused killings within the Kashmir Valley that embrace non-Muslims, safety personnel, an artist and native civilians.

Two persons- a financial institution worker and a brick kiln labourer had been killed in Kashmir on Thursday whereas one other labourer was injured in two separate incidents.

The financial institution supervisor was the ninth and the labourer was the tenth focused killing in Kashmir since May 1.

A girl trainer hailing from the Samba district of the Jammu area was shot lifeless by terrorists at a college in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday.

On May 18, terrorists had entered a wine store at Baramulla in North Kashmir and threw a grenade, killing one particular person from the Jammu area and injuring three others.

Policeman Saifullah Qadri was shot lifeless exterior his residence in Srinagar on May 24 whereas tv artiste Amreen Bhat was gunned down in Budgam two days later.

Scores of Kashmiri Pandits, who had been employed below a chief minister’s bundle in 2012, have been staging protests threatening mass exodus for the reason that killing of Rahul Bhat, who was shot lifeless by terrorists on May 12 within the Chadoora space of Budgam district in central Kashmir.

The high-level assembly chaired by Shah was the second such train in lower than a fortnight.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Director of Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar, Director General of Central Reserve Police Force Kuldiep Singh, Border Security Force chief Pankaj Singh, and Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh amongst different key officers took half within the assembly.

Earlier, Shah had a casual assembly with LG Manoj Sinha, Arvind Kumar, Secretary of RAW Samant Goel and DGP of Jammu and Kashmir Dilbagh Singh.