J&K police announces Rs 10 lakh reward for tip-off in recent targeted attacks in Kashmir
Director General of Jammu and Kashmir police R R Swain announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh in each of the recent separate targeted attacks in Kashmir in which a head constable of police and a non local labourer were killed and an inspector of police was seriously injured. He said that militant networks won’t accept defeat easily as they have made huge investments in this.
The attacks took place around the time, when Swain, a 1991 batch IPS officer, assumed the office of the 17th J&K police chief here in Srinagar on October 31.
A J&K police inspector Masroor Abbas was critically injured in Srinagar on October 29 afternoon, when he was playing cricket. He is undergoing treatment at a hospital here. On October, 30, a non local labourer Mukesh Kumar from Uttar Pradesh was killed in Pulwama district of southern Kashmir.
A day later, on October 31 evening, suspected militants killed a head constable of J&K police in Baramulla district of northern Kashmir.
“Terrorist attacks like these are beyond the red line. They are in hiding after committing murder. We want to reach to the level of (security) that if somebody from the terrorist, separatist network gave a threat to somebody it will be deemed that a crime has been committed,” Swain told media here.
He said that the investigations into the cases of recent targeted attacks would be conducted professionally. “Whosoever gives any input or tipoff regarding the accused involved in these cases, we have announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for them in each case,” he said.
The police chief who is also incharge of the intelligence wing of the J&K police said that the militant and separatist networks won’t leave any chance.
