Targeted killings in Kashmir: Amit Shah, LG Manoj Sinha may hold discussions in Delhi
Government sources said in the wake of the targeted killings in Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha are likely to discuss the issue on Saturday. The meeting is expected to take place in the second half of the day in which Home Minister JK will discuss with the LG the security scenario and other issues related to crime against innocent people in the Valley, where there is a principal and a teacher. A government school was gunned down by terrorists on Thursday, in a fresh incident of targeted killings in the Kashmir Valley.
The meeting will be held soon after the home minister returned to the national capital from Gujarat, where he had gone on a one-day visit on Friday related to some official and party matters. LG Manoj Sinha is also expected to reach Delhi this morning.
The meeting has been scheduled two days after the home minister chaired a high-level meeting at his North Block office in the home ministry to discuss targeted killings, particularly in Kashmir.
The Home Minister, in a nearly three-hour meeting at his office in the presence of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Intelligence Bureau Director Arvind Kumar, Border Security, also discussed the incidents of targeted killing in Kashmir and the roadmap for further action. reviewed. Director General Pankaj Singh, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief Kuldeep Singh and other officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The terrorists who entered the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Idgah area of Srinagar discussed the issue intensely and shot the principal and the teacher at close range.
The attack comes less than 48 hours after three people were killed in Tuesday’s attacks and seven people were killed in terror attacks in Kashmir in the past five days.
In a series of tweets, soon after the killing on Thursday, Sinha strongly condemned the “brutal killing” of two teachers, Supinder Kaur and Deepak Chand, by terrorists, and said, “The perpetrators of the heinous terror attacks will be given a befitting reply. The innocent. on people”
(with inputs from ANI)
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