Ahmad Taimur
Jammu, Jan 15: Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, who was on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, held a meeting with Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and joint high-level security meeting in Jammu to review the ongoing anti-terror operations and various other security aspects vis-a-vis the Union Territory, sources said. He concluded his two-day visit to J&K today after holding hectic deliberations top security brass.
As already reported, the Home Secretary arrived in Jammu yesterday and soon after chaired a high-level security meeting at the Convention Centre on Canal Road here.
His visit to Jammu and Kashmir comes a week after Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security meeting in New Delhi where he directed the security agencies to continue the anti-terror operations in the Union Territory in a mission mode.
The Home Secretary, according to sources, held a meeting with Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to discuss and review the security situation, anti-terror operations, and operational preparedness by various security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir.
They said that he called on the Lt Governor at the Lok Bhawan this morning and held discussions on wide-ranging security and developmental issued in Jammu and Kashmir. “They discussed and reviewed the current security situation in the twin regions of Kashmir and Jammu, the ongoing anti-terror operations in the Valley and the forested areas of several district in the Jammu region,“ they said.
He also chaired another joint security high-level review meeting at the Convention Centre for the second day. The meeting was attended by Intelligence Bureau Director, Tapan Deka, BSF Director General, Praveen Kumar, CRPF chief, G P Singh, DGP J&P Police, Nalin Prabhat, senior Army, Police, Civil, and Intelligence Officers.
Sources said that the meeting reviewed heightened operational security in the mountainous and forested areas and assessed the ongoing anti-terror operations and drone intrusions along the Line of Control and the International Border.
They said that the meeting focussed on the ongoing anti-terror operations in mountainous and forested areas of Doda, Kishtwar, Kathua and Udhampur and Udhampur districts.
Security forces have been carrying out sustained operations to track and neutralise terrorists in the forested areas of these districts over the past few weeks. Sources said that the Home Secretary flew back to New Delhi after concluding his 2-day visit to J&K today.
