SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) RR Swain on Monday said that the police are fully prepared to ensure peaceful Lok Sabha elections whenever they are announced, and the force will provide a safe and secure atmosphere to enthusiastic voters.
Speaking to reporters after inaugurating the police post at Rohmoo in the Southern district of Pulwama, the DGP said that the police force is fully prepared and geared up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in JK.
“We will ensure peaceful Lok Sabha polls in JK. We will provide a safe and secure atmosphere to enthusiastic voters,” the DGP said in reply to a query.
Replying to another query about links between narco-terror and terrorism, the DGP said that earlier, they had a doubt whether these two are really linked. “As investigations progressed, concrete evidence came to the fore that narco-trade and terrorism are deeply not only linked but interconnected. Terrorist outfits like Al-Badr, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Toiba are behind this trade,” he said.
The JK police chief said that the value of a Rs 15 lakh consignment of narcotics reaches up to Rs 1 Crore while travelling from Kashmir to Delhi and other parts of the country.
“We have a robust mechanism to curb and crack this trade. It is not so easy but we are doing it, and the police force is capable of doing it,” he said—(KNO)
