Jammu, locals supporting foreign terrorists will be dealt with under the Enemy Agents Ordinance, which is much stricter than the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police RR Swain said on Sunday .
He claimed that the Jammu region will be free of all foreign terrorists in the coming months.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, the police chief said the National Investigation Agency has taken over the investigation into the June 9 terror attack on a pilgrim bus in Reasi district.
He said police here also arrested six people in connection with the shooting in Kathua district on June 12 and the case was handed over to the State Investigation Agency.
Ten people, including seven pilgrims, returning from the Shiv Khori temple and a CRPF jawan were killed and dozens more injured in four terror incidents between June 9 and 12 in Reasi, Doda and Kathua districts. Two Pakistani terrorists were also killed in one of the clashes in Kathua.
"Locals who support foreign terrorists will be dealt with under the Enemy Agents Ordinance, which carries a minimum sentence of life imprisonment or death. This law, introduced to counter Pakistani raiders or invaders in 1948, is much harsher than the UAPA "said the DGP.
He said that foreign mercenaries have no active legitimacy to be here and that they only come to kill civilians, trigger civil conflicts, destabilize the government and impose their ideology on the people.
"These fighters do not fall within the scope of investigation and only deserve kinetic action... I have always said that we will win this fight with the help of the people, with the village defense guards, the special police officers and with the support of the central armed forces," he said.
Swain said terrorism was eradicated from Jammu in 2005, 10 years after it spread its tentacles to the region, and he vowed to eliminate it again. "We are determined and confident to eliminate all terrorists in the next two to three months."
He said special courts will be set up for trials of those arrested under the Enemy Agents Ordinance.
"There are two angles: one is that all I have to prove is that there was a foreigner and that the person helped him," he said.
When asked about the presence of Pakistani soldiers among the terrorists operating in the Jammu region, he said: "There is hardly any difference. It is a matter of tactics, for us he is an enemy, whether he comes from a uniformed background, of a prison or a terror factory."
And he added: "We will try to minimize these losses with the help of training, determination and tactics. We will defeat the enemy and if you think that we are moving away only because of fear of losses, you are wrong."
When asked about the terror attacks in the Jammu region, he said the police made six arrests in Kathua and also made a breakthrough by arresting a conspirator in the Reasi terror attack case.
"The Reasi terror attack case was handed over to the NIA and similarly, the Kathua case was handed over to the SIA. We are actively considering handing over the terror attack cases to professional agencies so that the investigation is carried out in a sustained manner to reveal the conspiracy, identify those who facilitated, aided and abetted the crime and bring the culprits to justice," he said.
On two attacks in Doda district that left seven security personnel, including two policemen, injured, he said the incidents occurred during a search and destroy action and investigation into the incidents is ongoing. 6/2/2024 NV
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He claimed that the Jammu region will be free of all foreign terrorists in the coming months.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, the police chief said the National Investigation Agency has taken over the investigation into the June 9 terror attack on a pilgrim bus in Reasi district.
He said police here also arrested six people in connection with the shooting in Kathua district on June 12 and the case was handed over to the State Investigation Agency.
Ten people, including seven pilgrims, returning from the Shiv Khori temple and a CRPF jawan were killed and dozens more injured in four terror incidents between June 9 and 12 in Reasi, Doda and Kathua districts. Two Pakistani terrorists were also killed in one of the clashes in Kathua.
"Locals who support foreign terrorists will be dealt with under the Enemy Agents Ordinance, which carries a minimum sentence of life imprisonment or death. This law, introduced to counter Pakistani raiders or invaders in 1948, is much harsher than the UAPA "said the DGP.
He said that foreign mercenaries have no active legitimacy to be here and that they only come to kill civilians, trigger civil conflicts, destabilize the government and impose their ideology on the people.
"These fighters do not fall within the scope of investigation and only deserve kinetic action... I have always said that we will win this fight with the help of the people, with the village defense guards, the special police officers and with the support of the central armed forces," he said.
Swain said terrorism was eradicated from Jammu in 2005, 10 years after it spread its tentacles to the region, and he vowed to eliminate it again. "We are determined and confident to eliminate all terrorists in the next two to three months."
He said special courts will be set up for trials of those arrested under the Enemy Agents Ordinance.
"There are two angles: one is that all I have to prove is that there was a foreigner and that the person helped him," he said.
When asked about the presence of Pakistani soldiers among the terrorists operating in the Jammu region, he said: "There is hardly any difference. It is a matter of tactics, for us he is an enemy, whether he comes from a uniformed background, of a prison or a terror factory."
And he added: "We will try to minimize these losses with the help of training, determination and tactics. We will defeat the enemy and if you think that we are moving away only because of fear of losses, you are wrong."
When asked about the terror attacks in the Jammu region, he said the police made six arrests in Kathua and also made a breakthrough by arresting a conspirator in the Reasi terror attack case.
"The Reasi terror attack case was handed over to the NIA and similarly, the Kathua case was handed over to the SIA. We are actively considering handing over the terror attack cases to professional agencies so that the investigation is carried out in a sustained manner to reveal the conspiracy, identify those who facilitated, aided and abetted the crime and bring the culprits to justice," he said.
On two attacks in Doda district that left seven security personnel, including two policemen, injured, he said the incidents occurred during a search and destroy action and investigation into the incidents is ongoing. 6/2/2024 NV
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