The Centre decided in a meeting between senior security and intelligence officials that properties of supporters of terrorists will be confiscated in Jammu as well on the lines of Kashmir. Not only this, cases will also be registered against them under serious sections. The NDA government will also make a list of the supporters of terrorists.
Moreover, it is being considered that their family members of terrorist sympathisers wouldn’t be given government jobs, sources aware of the matter told India Today. A meeting was held to review the current situation in Jammu given the possible visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 21 and the Amarnath Yatra in the backdrop of the recent terrorist attacks.
Over the past few days, terrorist attacks took place across Reasi, Kathua and Doda, killing 9 people, including 7 pilgrims and a CRPF jawan, and leaving 7 security personnel and others injured. Incidents of terror attacks in Jammu, below the Pir Panjal range, have gone up significantly in the recent past.
In this meeting, it was clearly mentioned that infiltration into India through the international border connected to Jammu has been increasing. It was also noted that in view of the Amarnath Yatra, Pakistani intelligence agency ISI is eyeing an opportunity to attack India, as per sources.
Besides this, more than 500 companies of paramilitary forces including CRPF, BSF, ITBP, CISF, etc. will be deployed on the route for the Amarnath Yatra. It was also decided that all the companies of these forces present in Punjab should be sent back to Jammu.
Apart from security and intelligence agencies, officials of many important departments including the Kashmir Division of the Home Ministry and the Military Intelligence Branch were involved in this meeting.
Speaking on the spate of terror attacks in Jammu, security analyst and senior ORF fellow Sushant Sareen told India Today that the Pakistani leadership was “itching to do something” after Lok Sabha elections were conducted peacefully by and large.
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