Security in J& K beefed up ahead of polls today
Srinagar, Oct. 7: Security forces have intensified checking and area domination as part of an elaborate plan to provide a sense of security for the smooth conduct of local body polls in the Kashmir Valley, officials said on Sunday.
The first phase of the polls start Monday.
“An elaborate security plan has been put in place for the smooth conduct of the polls,” a senior police official said. He said security forces have intensified vehicle checking, frisking and area domination in the city as well as in the other areas of the valley in the run up to the polls.
“Many check- points have been placed in the city where vehicles are being checked. Sniffer dogs are also being used to check vehicles,” he said. The official said while providing a secure atmosphere for the polls was a challenge, there is a good synergy between various security agencies and several steps have been taken to provide a general sense of security.
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Hurriy at Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was Sunday placed under house arrest ahead of the first phase of urban local body ( ULB) polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
Elections to ULBs in the state will start from Monday and be held in four phases.
On October 2, police took Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik into preventive custody. Hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani continues to be under house detention.
“Under # HouseArrest! Peculiar “Democratic” process of elections” gearing up “as huge deployment of forces, PSAs, incarcerations, house arrests, raids, Curbs, internet bans gather momentum!
“Not to mention the unknown contestants and amused public! What mockery of democracy is at display! ( sic)” Mirwaiz Umar Farooq tweeted.
The three separatist leaders — under the banner of Joint Resistance Leadership ( JRL) — have called for boycott of the polls beginning Monday.