Amid a rise in terror incidents in the Jammu region over the past few few weeks, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is regularly reviewing the security situation and a new strategy has been adopted to neutralise terrorists.
Singh said village defence guards (VDGs), which have played a crucial role in counter-terrorism efforts, will be revived in the region.
The heightened militancy in the region over the past one-and-a-half months has left 24 people, including 10 security personnel, dead and 56 injured.
In the latest attack according to PTI, Two Army soldiers were injured in the early hours of Thursday in another militant attack in the forest areas of Desa in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district.
The attack took place at a school where the soldiers — who have been conducting search operations in the area — were spending the night.
It was the third militant attack in the forest areas of Desa since the one on Monday night in the Koti Desa forests, during which four soldiers, including a Captain, were killed.
Earlier, The mortal remains of Captain Brijesh Thapa, who was killed in an encounter with heavily armed terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, was brought by air to Bagdogra in northern West Bengal .
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, former foreign secretary Harshvardhan Shringla and others paid their respects to the mortal remains of the officer at Bengdubi Military Station near Siliguri.
