The Director General of Jammu & Kashmir Police (DGP), Dilbagh Singh on Thursday said by eliminating 26 top commanders of different terror outfits in the last seven months the security forces have successfully destroyed terror networks and rendered these terror outfits leaderless in different parts of the Kashmir valley.
Addressing a joint press conference in the company of senior army and CRPF officers in Handwara, Singh said, “ the terror structure has been successfully targeted by the joint teams of security forces leaving many terror outfits leaderless. He said, so far this year 26 top most commanders have been killed in different encounters across Kashmir valley.”
Referring to the recent successful operations in which six terrorists including Nasir-ud-din and another LeT Commander Sajad Mir alias Haider were killed, DGP said, “Nasir was involved in the killing of six CRPF personnel besides other killings, including a cop. He was likely to carry out a big strike in north Kashmir after the killing of Sajad alias Hyder,” said Singh.
Regarding the probe into the alleged fake encounter in Shopian, the DGP said that the investigation is going in the right direction and police is also carrying out a separate investigation in the matter.
The DGP said that despite challenges, safety of people is being ensured and added that there have been no civilian casualty in 2019 and 2020 in any law and order situation or at any encounter site.
He said that protecting the interests of people is our prime concern and every possible step is being taken to ensure it. He said that infiltration of terrorists from across the border has reduced because of a strong security grid and the number of youth joining terror groups has also seen decline in J&K.
DGP Dilbagh Singh said that the situation in north Kashmir is improving and with the killing of Sajad Hyder and Naseer-u-Din, along with two Pak based terrorists Usman Bhai @ Taimur khan and Ali Bhai @ Danish who were involved in major terrorist activities, forces are expecting slowdown of terrorist activities in the area as both these terror commanders were pressuring and motivating youth in north Kashmir to join terror groups.
Addressing media IGP Kashmir,Vijay Kumar said that in recent past security forces were massively engaged with the COVID lockdown and terrorists taking advantage of it managed to attack security forces. He said that continued coordinated efforts of security forces despite being engaged with COVID lockdown have resulted in eliminating a number of terrorists and their commanders.
Commander 7 sector Brig. Mahipal Singh Rathore on the occasion said that the security grid on borders is very strong but because of the weather conditions and other factors on borders some terrorists manage to sneak here and added that during the last three months all terrorists who managed to cross the LoC have been gunned down. He said families have an important role to play in bringing back the misguided youth from terror ranks.