{"id":35373,"date":"2020-12-14T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35373"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:15:14","slug":"killing-of-pdp-leaders-pso-an-attempt-to-disrupt-ongoing-election-process-peaceful-atmosphere-in-kashmir-jk-dgp-dilbagh-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35373","title":{"rendered":"Killing of PDP leader\u2019s PSO an attempt to disrupt ongoing election process, peaceful atmosphere in Kashmir: J&K DGP Dilbagh Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u2018PDP chief\u2019s allegations about trimming security cover of its men baseless, had asked PDP leader Pervez to shift his location, he didn\u2019t pay heed to our repeated requests; Have fair clue about number of militants involved in act, will bring attackers to justice\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Srinagar<\/strong>: Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh Monday said that the killing of a Personal Security Officer (PSO) of a PDP leader at Natipora, Srinagar, is an attempt to disrupt the ongoing election process and the prevailing peaceful environment across Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said that police have clues about the number of militants involved in the attack and area where they came from and that \u201cattackers will soon be brought to book.\u201d Talking to reporters on the sidelines of wreath laying ceremony of Manzoor Ahmed at District Police Lines (DPL) Srinagar, the DGP said that one must understand that J&K is going through an important exercise at present\u2014the exercise at the grassroots level and there is a huge participation of people, which is commendable. PSO Manzoor was guarding PDP senior leader Haji Pervez Ahmed at Natipora, Srinagar, and sustained bullet wounds after militants fired at him at Pervez\u2019s residence early this morning. He was shifted to Bone and Joints Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have been elaborate security arrangements but we can\u2019t put the movement of people to a complete halt while ensuring the grassroot level exercise. In between, there is a hidden movement of an odd number of anti-national elements as well,\u201d he said as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The DGP said that in Poonch, a group of Lashkar-e-Toiba militants had infiltrated and were trying to reach Shopian but couldn\u2019t due to snow accumulation in the area. \u201cTheir motive too was to disrupt the ongoing election process. We offered them surrender multiple times with an aim that we could show the world that how our neighbor is fomenting trouble in Kashmir. But the militants refused to surrender and were killed in the encounter,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwe have enough evidence and incriminating material recovered from the slain militants by which we can prove what their motive was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

About PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti\u2019s tweet wherein she has alleged that J&K administration has left the opposition leaders in a vulnerable position by downgrading their security, the DGP termed the allegations as baseless. \u201cThe PDP leader (Haji Pervez Ahmed) at whose residence PSP Manzoor was killed, was asked by the police to shift the location on the pretext that his residence was in a congested area and prone to militant attacks. He never paid heed to our suggestions,\u201d the DGP said. \u201cHe regularly violated security advisories. We reviewed his security and found there was a need of one PSO for him, but two were provided to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

To a query what was the motive of militants behind today\u2019s attack, the J&K police chief said that the motive was to disrupt the ongoing election process and the peaceful environment prevailing in the Valley that was \u201cmanaged by people and the security agencies including police after a lot of efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said attacks like the one happened today can happen despite the security cover to the politicians. \u201cBJP slain youth leader Waseem Bari had 10 PSOs but still got killed. \u201cIn today\u2019s attack, we have a fair amount of clues about the number of militants who carried out the attack and the area from where they came from. I am sure police will track them down soon and bring them to justice,\u201d the DGP said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018PDP chief\u2019s allegations about trimming security cover of its men baseless, had asked PDP leader Pervez to shift his location, he didn\u2019t pay heed to our repeated requests; Have fair clue about number of militants involved in act, will bring attackers to justice\u2019 Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh Monday said that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}