SRINAGAR: India has deployed 77 additional companies of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to suppress the ongoing Intifada through enforcing round-the-clock curfew in every nook and corner of Indian held Kashmir.
Around 50,000 CRPF personnel were deployed in Kashmir prior to July 8, the day Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani, was martyred by Indian troops.
In order to suppress the uprising erupted after the killing of Burhan Wani, 77 more companies of the CRPF were brought in. Sixty companies of CRPF were brought from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Manipur, Mizoram and Assam and the additional companies that were brought for yatra duty have also been retained in Kashmir.
Special Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), S N Shrivastava, told media that the need for more CRPF companies was felt as some areas were left unattended, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. “Now we have more forces on the ground and we are able to impose night curfew and enforce day curfew strictly”, he said.
