Srinagar, Feb 22 : The Centre has decided to deploy 100 more companies of paramilitary forces in Kashmir Valley immediately.
“We have to urgently deploy CAPFs in Jammu & Kashmir. It is requested to provide 100 coys of CAPFs (CRPF – 45,BSF-35,SSB-10 & ITBP 10) to Govt of J&K with immediate effect and till further orders. IG (ops), CRPF is requested to ensure immediate movement of forces in coordination with IG (ops) of all forces,” reads a Home Ministry letter to the state government, copies of which have been also sent to IG(Ops) to CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB, for “further information.”
The deployment comes even as police tonight arrested JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and apprehensions among people regarding the outcome of Supreme Court’s hearing of pleas on scrapping Articles 35A and 370 from the Indian Constitution. (GNS)
