CRPF deploys five more companies in J&K following the militant attacks on civilians
Tuesday | Apr 01 2025 | 02:50:39 AM
Tuesday | Apr 01 2025 | 02:50:39 AM
New Delhi, November 10
With the series of militant attacks on civilians in Jammu & Kashmir, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) sent five more companies to the UT.
The CRPF said it had earlier sent 25 companies to Jammu and Kashmir.
“The CRPF is sending five additional companies to J&K in the wake of recent civilian killings in the Union Territory. These companies will be deployed there within a week. The force earlier sent 25 companies in J&K,” the CRPF stated.
The announcement came a day after a salesman was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar. The salesman Mohd Ibrahim Khan, who hailed from Bandipore district, was employed with a Kashmiri Pandit businessman Roshan Lal Mawa, whose business is located in the old city of the Valley.
A day before that, constable Tawseef Ahmad Wani was killed by terrorists in Srinagar’s Batamaloo area. constable Wani was killed by terrorists just weeks after his family was visited by Union Home Minister Amit Shah last month.
11 civilians, mostly non-locals, have been targeted so far by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
The CRPF stated that 112 terrorists in total have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir so far this year. Also, 135 ultras have been apprehended and two surrendered during the same period.
