Cop killed in grenade blast in Valley: Police
Tahir Khan was killed hours after an SI was wounded in an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force bunker in Srinagar
SRINAGAR: A policeman was killed late on Saturday after a grenade was lobbed at a patrol in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kulgam district in the latest in a series of attacks in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations.
Police said that Tahir Khan was killed hours after a sub-inspector was wounded in an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force bunker in Srinagar.
On Thursday, four soldiers, including a junior commissioner officer, were killed and two injured after terrorists attempted to storm an army camp in the Rajouri district.
Khan, who was from Poonch’s Mendhar and joined the Jammu & Kashmir Police in 2019, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Anantnag
Another officer was injured in firing on police personnel near Padshahi Bagh area of Bijbehara in Anantnag on Friday. On Thursday, Mohammad Amrez, a migrant worker from Madhepura in Bihar, was shot dead in the Bandipora district.
Meanwhile, Union territory’s police chief Dilbag Singh said on Sunday that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is much better than before and the graph of militancy is coming down.
However, he said the launchpads across the Line of Control (LoC) were intact and there was a huge pressure to push militants into the Valley.
“The situation in J-K is much better. The atmosphere is much better than before and I want to give its credit to the people and express my gratitude to them,” the director general of police ( DGP) told reporters on the sidelines of an event here.
Singh said the people of Kashmir have helped the security forces and the administration with a great understanding.
“Today, students are going to their schools without any fear, employees are attending their offices without any fear, the businessmen are doing their businesses without any fear. Daily life is going on normally.
“There is no obstruction in any way today and everyone, people, security forces, are working together for that. So, the security situation is much better and we will further better it,” he said.
“There were attempts, and they succeeded in a few, but in total, the situation along the border is much better than before and there is a much better control. Now, since it has become difficult to come via the ground, they are using drones to transport weapons as the neighbour continues its sinister designs,” he added.
Singh said the graph of militancy is coming down but Pakistan’s conspiracies have not stopped yet.
“Small, young boys, who are not yet to mature, are being radicalised one way or the other and involved in the new form of hybrid terrorism. A common boy who till yesterday was studying and living his life normally is radicalised and suddenly involved in some terror act and the road to his return is closed,” he said.