Srinagar: Frisking has been increased in Srinagar ahead of January 26 functions. Reports said women were frisked by female police and CRPF personnel in Lal Chowk area of the city .
The women uniformed personnel checked the bags of female folk passing through the city centre Lal Chowk, reports said. The men were frisked by the uniformed counterparts including police and CRPF. Vehicles were also randomly stopped and frisked.
Meanwhile, patrolling and deployment of troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir have been strengthened ahead of Republic Day, a senior BSF officer said.
“Militant outfits always try to carry out violence but jawans are alert on the border. Our endeavour is not to allow infiltration by militants. Such attempts are on from across the border but we prevent them forcefully,” said Ashok Yadav, the inspector general of the BSF Kashmir Frontier.
“Our alertness doubles whenever there is an event like this (Republic Day). We have strengthened our patrolling and deployment. Many of our companies are also deployed for law-and-order duties and the endeavour is to prevent any such incident,” he told reporters here.
He was addressing an event to flag off the educational-cum-motivational Bharat Darshan Tour to Mumbai of 29 Kashmiri students of different schools.
Asked if there was any input about the possibility of any terror incident like the recent one in Jammu, the IG BSF said he had no such knowledge.

KR Desk