{"id":48247,"date":"2021-09-15T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/igp-vijay-kumar-says-even-girls-are-part-of-drug-menace\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:29:43","slug":"igp-vijay-kumar-says-even-girls-are-part-of-drug-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48247","title":{"rendered":"IGP Vijay Kumar says even girls are part of drug menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Srinagar, Sep 15: Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar Wednesday said that police will come down heavily upon drug addicts in coming days. He said even girls are involved in drug menace and it is not a good sign for the society. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Speaking on the sidelines of a sports event- \u201cTaekwondo Championship\u201d at Indoor Sports Hall here in Polo-Ground Srinagar, Kumar said police have prepared a blue-print to eradicate drug menace from the society. \u201cYouth are involved in drug addiction. Even girls are part of this menace and it is not a good thing for the society. We will go with heavy hands against those involved in drug trade,\u201d IGP said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vijay Kumar as per news agency Kashmir News Trust said that they will seek cooperation from parents and general public to put an end to this drug addiction. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will get out of this drug menace,\u201d he said adding that sports activities ensure personality development and it creates a sense of security and positive feelings among participants. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In response to a volley of questions about militancy and grenade attacks, IGP Vijay Kumar said that there are four militants active in Kashmir capital Srinagar. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLast year in August, we had declared Srinagar city \u2018zero-militancy\u2019 Zone but in the first week of September, a militant from Kulgam Abbas shifted to Srinagar and subsequently seven persons jointed militant ranks while a couple of other youth followed suit. Among them five have been neutralized,\u201d Kumar said adding that there are 10 to 15 over ground workers active in Srinagar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cThere is nothing to worry. Either they will be killed or arrested,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Downplaying the attacks on the pattern of \u2018hit and run\u2019, Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said that militants should be ashamed of themselves by resorting to such attacks. \u201cWe saw how militants indulged in \u2018hit and run\u2019 attacks in Baghat Barzulla and recently in Khanyar. They should not resort to such attacks,\u201d he said and added that graph of militancy is coming down and there are only four militants active in Srinagar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kumar said he was out of station and will look into the details of couple of grenade attacks that took place recently. (KNT)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Sep 15: Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar Wednesday said that police will come down heavily upon drug addicts in coming days. He said even girls are involved in drug menace and it is not a good sign for the society. Speaking on the sidelines of a sports event- \u201cTaekwondo Championship\u201d at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48247","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\/48247","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=48247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}