Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, Sept 23: Over 250 people including the separatist leaders and known stone pelters have been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) since July 9 after the violence broke out in Kashmir claiming over 84 lives and injuring over 13000.
Official figures revealed that 250 people were booked under PSA including Human Rights activist, Khuram Pervaiz, and many separatist leaders and hardcore stone pelters. These people were booked under PSA to put an end to 77 days of violence in Kashmir.
The official figures suggested that over 3200 stone pelters and trouble makers have been arrested by police since July. Out of these around 2500 have been released on bail while over 500 are in police and judicial custody and 250 have been booked under PSA.
The officials said that there have been over 2000 stone pelting incidents during 77 days of violence in Kashmir during which 54 installations of Police and Government have been damaged and around 40 installations of police and Government have been torched by violent mob.
The officials said that situation has shown considerable improvement with the arrest of stone pelters and their handlers across Kashmir. As per the official figures the violence levels have gone down by 90 percent.
The official data revealed that during initial days of unrest, at least 150 incidents of stone pelting were being reported daily and now these incidents have come down between 8 to 20 incidents daily.
The Fridays have been worst as initially despite curfew and curfew like restrictions in most parts of Kashmir, at least 100 stone pelting incidents were reported. These incidents have now come down to over 30 now.
As the para-military forces were less in number initially and Government was short of forces but over 20, 000 para-military force personnel have been brought for law and order duty to control the violence.
Army has also rushed one Brigade to worst hit South Kashmir for area dominance and tackling militancy which has increased during the unrest.
Initially for first 40 days, the protesters were almost in control as the National Highway and district roads were being blocked by protesters at many places making movement of the vehicles impossible.
Later, Army took over the area domination of the Highway and main district roads making it possible for the vehicles to ply on these roads.
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