Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir region.
This is the first meeting between Shah and top civil and police officials of the newly-created Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam and Director General of Police Dilbag Singh briefed Shah about the prevailing situation in the UT, especially after restrictions were lifted from mobile phone networks, officials said.
The meeting also discussed the general law and order and possibility of releasing political leaders. It is learned that general opinion was to discuss this matter on case to case basis considering the situation. The meeting also discussed on legal positions and needs to be taken care after the change of the areas status to union territory.
The high level meeting also reviewed the functioning of schools, hospitals in the region and provisions of security cover to the essential services and administration’s co-ordination with security forces. Union Home Secretary Ajay K Bhalla and other senior officers of the Union Home Ministry and Jammu & Kashmir administration were present in the meeting.
Normal life in Jammu & Kashmir remains hit as schools and other academic institutions are yet to be fully operationalised while markets and business establishments are functioning only partially for limited time periods. On Monday, a person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a grenade attack in Srinagar.