SRINAGAR: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)today said that Government of Jammu and Kashmir has withdrawn security cover from 919 undeserving persons, since Governor’s Rule.
According to reports since Governor’s Rule (20th June, 2018) government has withdrawn security cover from 919 undeserving persons, in the State, thereby freeing 2,768 police personnel and 389 vehicles.
Earlier Security cover of 18 separatist leaders and 155 Jammu and Kashmir politicians has been withdrawn in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack on February 14 in which over 40 CRPF troopers were killed.
Some of them are Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, former IAS officer Shah Faesal and PDP leader Waheed Para.
“Over 1,000 personal security guards and 100 vehicles provided to the secured persons are being withdrawn,” officials said here.
The decision to cut down heavily on separatist leaders’ cover was taken in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack when an explosive-packed SUV rammed into a bus of a Central Reserve Police Force convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway killing at least 40 paramilitary troopers on the spot in the worst-ever terror attack in the state since militancy struck there in 1989. (PTK)
