{"id":9860,"date":"2017-06-19T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:58:41","slug":"ultras-planning-attacks-srinagar-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9860","title":{"rendered":"Ultras planning attacks in Srinagar: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>The police have asked the security forces deployed in Srinagar to be on an alert and take \u201cimmediate preventive measures\u201d after intelligence inputs suggested that militants are planning to carry out attacks in the city.Three senior police officers confirmed the alert had been issued. The alert, marked \u201ctop secret\u201d and \u201curgent,\u201d was issued by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir zone.However, it was leaked on social media sites, which a senior officer said could have happened by mistake. \u201cIt is a routine alert which is issued from time to time,\u201d IGP, Kashmir, Muneer Khan, told The Tribune.However, the contents of the message suggested that police had a detailed intelligence input that an attack was imminent. The inputs had revealed that movement of militants was observed in downtown Srinagar \u2014 the densely populated old city.The alert came when there has been a spurt in incidents of violence in the Kashmir valley during the recent weeks. Just a few days ago, 14 persons, including eight policemen, three militants and three civilians, were killed in separate attacks.Though most of the militant activity has remained limited to south Kashmir, central Kashmir\u2019s Budgam and Srinagar district are also registering a spillover effect. Srinagar, which the security agencies had once described as a zero-militancy district, has re-emerged on a militant map as four local youths have joined the militant ranks in recent months.Sources in the police said presence of some local militants had been traced in Srinagar in recent days and the latest alert may be linked to their activities.The inputs, according to the communique, revealed that militants planned to carry out grenade attack and indiscriminate firing on \u201csecurity forces, camps, establishments and deployments\u201d. The alert, issued on Saturday, also specified that the attack might take place in Srinagar\u2019s Noorbagh, Nowhatta and Eidgah areas \u201cwithin next two days.\u201dIt also asked security forces to take \u201cimmediate preventive measures\u201d and develop the input to \u201ctrack and neutralise these operatives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0The police have asked the security forces deployed in Srinagar to be on an alert and take \u201cimmediate preventive measures\u201d after intelligence inputs suggested that militants are planning to carry out attacks in the city.Three senior police officers confirmed the alert had been issued. The alert, marked \u201ctop secret\u201d and \u201curgent,\u201d was issued by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9860","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\/9860","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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/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=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}