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| Give security forces a bad name and......., facts on ground prove contrary to allegations | | 
Jammu, September 30, (Scoop News)-On the bidding of their mentors across the border, a sustained campaign has been unleashed against the men in uniform in Kashmir to immobilize them to discharge their duties without any hindrance, said sources in the government.
On Wednesday, people allegedly blamed security forces for damaging apple harvest at Karimabad village in Pulwama district. The orchradists alleged that men in uniform who were patrolling the area, without any provocation, suddenly went on rampage and destroyed the apple produce. “They threw our hundreds of our apple boxes on the road side and later on ploughed their vehicles through these boxes,” alleged the orchardisits.
However, a police officer in the district promptly denied the allegation and said, “We have not received any such complaint and nothing of the sort has been brought to our notice so far.”
Reports from the ground, nonetheless, suggest that facts are contrary to the allegation, it were the unidentified people who had damaged the apple crop berating the orchardists for ' exporting apples to India and earning money ' when Kashmir is ‘burning’.
Similarly, on an earlier occasion, government forces were also accused of damaging paddy fields with ripened crop in a village (Bijbehara) of south Kashmir.
On Monday (Septmeber 25), again an allegation was leveled against the men in uniform of mowing down eight (8) mules belonging to nomads headed towards Rajouri from upper reaches of the valley with Casspir near Frisal village in south Kashmir. The sources said like fiction authors, the false reports were manufactured in the newspapers blaming therein army men for bumping their vehicle couple of times into the grazing herd of mules.
“It is an insult to the intelligence of readers to suggest any one vehicle could cause such an incident where so many animals would continue to remain on tracks to be knocked down by a vehicle while it goes to and fro,” said a statement issued by army on Tuesday (September 26).
Reacting sharply to the allegations, the statement further said, “it is a clear attempt at vilification of the fair image of the army and evinces a pattern in some section of media to malign the security forces especially in these sensitive times.”
Police had lodged an first information report (FIR) number 109/ 2016 under section 297 of the Ranbir Panel Code (RPC) against an unidentified vehicle (not casspir). According to the sources hundreds of vehicles carrying fruits these days ply during the night hours on the roads to avoid stone pelting protestors during the day and to single out a casspir without seeing it, is apparently ‘shocking and a deliberate attempt to malign the forces.’
Surprisingly, members of Gujjar (nomad) Community and Tribal and Cultural Foundation (TRCF) had in a press statement appealed to law enforcement agencies and protestors to provide safe passage to nomadic Gujjars and Bakerwals along with their live stock who are under seasonal migration through various routes in different parts of Kashmir and Jammu region.
They said, due to various restrictions they (nomads) can’t move freely towards their destinations and had, therefore, appealed for humanitarian approach towards them. ... |
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