Srinagar: Additional Director General of Police Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar on Friday said that as J-K marks the third anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, there has been no (hartal) strike call or any stone pelting incident at a gunfight (encounter) site in the last three years.
Kumar said that after abrogation of Article 370, neither any hartal call was witnessed, nor any stone pelting incident at a gunfight site.
He also said that there has been no processions in funeral and burial over the last three years.
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The abrogation of the autonomous status of J&K which was scrapped by BJP government on 5 August 2019, was followed by communication blockade, shutdown and all the pro-India political parties were put behind bars.
Though, the curbs were simultaneously lifted, the region witnessed a spate of targeted attacks against police force, civilians and non-locals.
In the span of three years, the military operations against militants were also intensified in the valley and a stringent crackdown against OGW (Over ground workers) was also reported. Moreover, a new term of ‘hybrid’ was introduced in Kashmir militancy which according to police are civilians who carry out attacks like ‘sleeper cells’ and live a normal life within the society.
Many ‘Hybrids’ were killed in encounters and some of them were arrested. Â
The J&K police chief said that 284 people including 174 government forces personnel and 110 civilians were killed in militancy related incidents in Kashmir Valley since 5 August 2019.
As per officla data, a total of 702 militants were also killed in Kashmir since 5 August, 2019.Â
In 2019, 160 militants were killed, 225 in 2020, a total of 189 militants were killed in 2021- most of them locals and 128 including 30 foreigners were killed in the first sic months of 2022.
Since April 2020, the government, citing COVID-19 concerns, stopped handing over the bodies of militants to their families and has, instead, been burying them in remote locations.
Nearly 250 over ground workers (OGWs) were booked under the Public Safety Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Most of them have been lodged in prisons outside Kashmir valley.
The crackdown against OGWs started last year when more than 150 people were rounded up till May 2021. Their number increased significantly in the last five months, with as many as 50 of them arrested in May alone. In 2020, 135 OGWs were arrested during the same period, as per official data.
