Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said a time bound comprehensive action plan has been prepared to further strengthen the security grid across Jammu region in the wake of targeted killings of members belonging to the minority community.
Shah also assured the civilians that the perpetrators of the Dhangri terror attacks will be soon brought to justice and punished in the court of law. During his day-long visit to Jammu Shah announced that the cases related to both terror incidents have been handed over to the National Investigation Agency.
"The NIA and Jammu Police will jointly investigate both the incidents of terrorist violence. The investigation will proceed keeping in mind all the incidents of terror attacks that took place in the last one and a half years."The Home Minister, who arrived here this afternoon, was addressing a press conference at the Raj Bhavan, after attending a high level security review meeting.
The meeting was attended by LG Manoj Sinha, Union Home Secretary, Chief Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir, Financial Commissioner (ACS) Home, DGP, Jammu and Kashmir, Commander, Northern Command, Army and Intelligence, and other senior officers of BSF and CRPF among others.
Briefing media persons, Shah said “My desire was to share the grief of victims’ families of the Rajouri terror attacks, but I could not go there due to bad weather, I spoke to all the families over the phone and tried to join their grief”. Shah said that the courage of all those victim families is an example for the whole country, it is a big thing to maintain the morale of fighting hard even after such a big incident.
He said that everyone he talked to showed the courage to stay back in the land that belonged to them, "All of them said that the land belonged to them and they will not leave it. Some families also were from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. But expressing the resilience to fight the situation even after facing such a grave tragedy means a lot." Shah said that with full empathy, the affected families would be given benefits through various schemes of the government, along with this all possible help will be provided by the LG with relief measures under his authority
Referring to the prevailing security situation, Shah said a comprehensive discussion took place with the senior officers belonging to different security agencies. "The security of the Jammu region was discussed in detail."
He said we have decided to implement a time bound action plan aimed at strengthening the security grid across Jammu, "I can assure that the security agencies be it the Jammu and Kashmir Police or the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, the SIA team of the Jammu Police or the Indian Army-all the agencies are 100 percent alert and are determined to prevent such incidents in the times to come."
The intelligence agencies have also decided to further intensify their activities and also have chalked out a strategy to do the same," he asserted.
The minister expressed confidence in the security agencies and said," I believe that in the days to come the people who have perpetrated the terror attacks will be brought to the books by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and make them face the court of law."