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Centre takes steps to fence borders after blasts

The Centre has taken numerous precautionary measures, including fencing the 17-km vulnerable riverine stretch of the border with Pakistan in the Jammu sector, after the recent bomb blasts in Jammu and Kashmir.

A home ministry spokesperson said a high-level team led by Special Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Affairs, T R Kakkar, had visited Jammu on Monday to review the security scenario there. The team had held intensive discussions with senior state government officials and officials of the paramilitary forces.

The team directed the police to set up additional checkpoints, both static and mobile, to ensure that terrorists found it difficult to move around.

The police was asked to carry operations against terrorist modules on the basis of special information. Besides, committees of shopkeepers were asked to set up to ensure that suspicious people or objects were reported to the security agencies.

The team asked the BSF to set up additional checkpoints along known infiltration routes in the Jammu sector. It was also decided to provide special street lights with separate uninterrupted power supply, especially in the evening, in Jammu city. The cost of some of these arrangements is to be included in security-related expenditures.

The Railway Board had been requested to fence Jammu railway station and its yards. It has been asked to later fence all railway stations in the Jammu region and provide lighting at strategic parts of the railway line between Jammu and Kathua.

The Railway Board has also been asked to construct huts every two kilometres along the railway line between Jammu and Kathua and to provide the latest communication equipment to patrols.

The spokesman said investigations into the bomb blasts on the tracks that destroyed bogies of the Sealdah Express on February 10 near Jammu and another blast in Krishna Nagar in Jammu were moving in the right direction. He said the groups involved in the incidents had been identified and one person was arrested today.

UNI

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