Srinagar, May 19 : Director General of Police R.R Swain on Sunday said security forces will launch a tough crackdown on the real Over Ground Workers (OGWs) and terrorists who are helping foreign terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Promising a tough crackdown on the real OGWs and a handful of local terrorists who have been helping foreign terrorists in various ways”, DGP Swain said during a meeting with senior officers of Army, CRPF and Police at district Police headquarters in south Kashmir Shopian district today.

Pertinently, militants shot dead a former BJP Sarpanch Aijaz Ahmad at Herpora in Shopian district while a Rajasthan couple, Tabrez and Farah were shot and injured at Yannar Pahalgam in Anantnag district of south Kashmir late yesterday.

The DGP made a lightning visit to the District police headquarters in Shopian and held a meeting with senior officers of the army, CRPF and police.

DGP said, the force of the law shall be brought upon these elements very severely and interests of the community protected at all costs.

During the meeting, enemy’s plans and frustrations and tasking of their agents and proxies to disrupt the democratic process, devious schemes to undertake selective targeting, to disrupt economic activities aimed at harming employment and income were analysed. Localised steps for countering the people’s enemy were also devised.

The security leaders held that facilitators who provide accommodation, transport, food, medicine, and phone facilities to the terrorists who pull the trigger, are as much guilty and will find it hard to hide and escape consequences.

The DGP was accompanied by IGP Kashmir V.K Birdi, DIG south Kashmir Altaf Ahmad Khan who also undertook a check of the night domination action of the security forces especially in the Pahalgam axis.

UNI