SRINAGAR — Director General of Police Rashmi Ranjan Swain, the 1991 batch IPS officer, visited the martyrs’ memorial at Pratap Park on Monday to pay homage to security forces who sacrificed their lives in the fight against insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. “A martyr’s memorial for a police officer is a place of worship, especially […]
SRINAGAR — PDP youth president Waheed Para accused Director General of Police R R Swain, who retired on Monday, of destroying lives by “criminalising thoughts and weaponising policing”. Para, who was in jail for nearly two years in terror-related cases, claimed that he was subjected to torture under the orders of Swain. In a post […]
SRINAGAR — The proceeds of the narcotics trade are being used by militant handlers in Pakistan to replenish their depleting funds, caused by a crackdown on “hawala” channels, to fuel militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the top cop of the Union Territory said here on Sunday. “Narcotics are turning out to be a main source […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police chief R R Swain Saturday hailed the rescue efforts by locals in Budgam where a bus carrying BSF personnel on election duty fell into a gorge, leaving three dead and 33 injured. Swain, the Director General of Police (DGP) of J&K, visited Brell village of Waterhail in central Kashmir’s […]
JAMMU — Village defence guards will be equipped with weapons and night vision devices, and “rewarded suitably” to shore up the anti-infiltration grid along the International Border (IB) by creating “a new level of difficulty for the enemy”, Jammu and Kashmir DGP R R Swain said on Sunday. He said that standard operating procedures will […]
SRINAGAR — The ability of the enemy to inflict harm in Jammu and Kashmir is limited, but it works on the sense of fear to create insecurity among people, the Union Territory’s police chief R R Swain said here on Friday. “I have said from the beginning that the ability of the adversary to cause […]