Security lapses led to Sopore attack, security to be reviewed: J&K IGP

A day after three people, including two councillors and a cop, were killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore, IGP Vijay Kumar has agreed that there were security lapses in the attack.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the wreath-laying ceremony of a CRPF jawan, who was injured in Lawaypora militant attack and succumbed to his injuries on Monday, the IGP agreed that even if there was one PSO in an active mode, militants could not have entered the building.

He informed that four PSOs were enough to block the militants, and all of them have been suspended.

The officer said that police and other security forces will intensify the anti-militancy operations and those involved in the Sopore attack will be either be killed or arrested. "One OGW has been arrested already and after interrogating him, we have come to know that one LeT militant Mudasir along with a foreigner carried out the attack,” the IGP said.

"There has been a spurt in the militant activities. We will increase operations in the coming days to neutralise the threat. We will organise new training courses for the jawans to tackle the new age militants," he added.

He said that the Municipal Committee chairman of Sopore had not informed the police about the meeting. “So there was no additional deployment. But still, four PSOs were enough to retaliate which they didn’t,” the IGP said.

The senior cop further added that a few vehicles seized recently were used by militants to carry out attacks on security forces including the one used for the “Lawaypora attack."

"That’s why RTO has issued an order making it mandatory for vehicles with outside registration to register the same within 15 days,” IGP Kumar said, adding that police will plug the loopholes in the days ahead and also conduct short-refresher courses for the PSOs.