Amit Shah chairs high-level security review meeting on J-K

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a high-level security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir. In the meeting, the Home Minister is expected to review the functioning of the security grid and various aspects related to security. The Home Minister would also review security in Jammu and Kashmir in view of recent attacks in the Union Territory. In the meeting, Shah also focused on complete area domination and better coordination among Police, Army and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) deployed in Jammu and Kashmir. The Home Minister also stressed the need to boost and strengthen local intelligence in the Union Territory. It is learned that the meeting would review the area domination plan, zero-terror plan, law and order situation, cases related to UAPA, and other security-related issues. Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, National Investigation Agency DG Dinkar Gupta, Director Generals of Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force attended the meeting, among other concerned officers of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Jammu and Kashmir. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Director Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka and Army Chief General Manoj Pande were also present in the meeting. The meeting was held days after four soldiers were killed and three injured following an encounter started after terrorists fired at two army vehicles passing through Dera Ki Gali in Rajouri’s Poonch region at around 3.45 pm on December 21 last year. @@@