The local residents in Dhangri village of Rajouri Monday demanded that the army personnel shifted from the area should be brought back to plug the security gaps and check the suspected movement of infiltrators in the region.
Besides, the local residents also raised the demand for equipping the members of the Village defence committees with modern weapons. J&K BJP Chief Ravinder Raina Monday patted the back of VDC member Balaji who according to him had retaliated the fire forcing the terrorists to flee the Dhangri village after targeting the members of the three families.
Raina, while briefing LG Manoj Sinha during his visit to Rajouri, said one of our VDC members Balaji acted bravely and opened fire on terrorists and saved many more innocent lives as terrorists ran away after they targeted the civilians in the area.
Local residents along with public representatives claimed the district Rajouri has once again come on the radar of the terrorist outfits and incidents of terror related violence have been happening on a regular basis.
To check the menace additional army troops should be deployed in the area to create a deterrence and instill a sense of security among the residents in the forested belt of Rajouri.
Dheeraj Sharma, Sarpanch of village Dhangri said, "there was a Village Defence Committee (VDC) in the area but police had taken away weapons of those VDC members who were above 60 and didn’t replace them with others".
DGP Dilbagh Singh said no one would be forced to surrender their weapon. He added that in order to win the war against terrorism every individual has to play its part.Singh said, "we are going to further boost the VDC's by equipping them with weapons so that they also play a significant role in wiping out the terror ecosystem".