Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 3: Police today said that they foiled attempt of 54 youth to join militancy in Kashmir and saved their families from getting adversely affected by the militancy.
Police said that during the last few months, 54 youth have been arrested from different districts of the Kashmir Zone. “Out of these, 28 youth have been arrested in Baramulla, Kupwara, Sopore, Handwara and Bandipora of the North Kashmir Range”, police said.
Thirteen youth have been arrested in Central Kashmir Range Srinagar while equal number of youth have been arrested in Pulwama, Anantnag, Shopian, Awantipora and Kulgam of South Kashmir.
Kupwara police arrested four boys who were attempting to cross LoC. On 27.6.2017 police station Kupwara received information that four boys of village Gulgam had gone missing. Following the information, a general alert was sounded across the district and two teams were constituted to trace out them. During search, one of the teams intercepted these boys near a nallah in dense forest close to the LoC and they shifted them to police station Kupwara.
They were identified as Shahid Ahmad Pir son of Mohammad Amin, resident of Pir Mohlla Gulgam, Wahed Ahmad Gojri son of Mohammad Sultan, resident of Deldjan Gulgam, Zeeshan Ahmad Lone son Ghulam Rasool Lone resident of Tanwari Gulgam and Ubaid Ahmad Gojree son of Abdul Razaq resident of Tanwari Gulgam.
The parents and the people of the area have hailed the efforts of the Kupwara police as three of the youth were handed over to their parents while one of them and his motivator were sent to juvenile home.
Though arms and ammunitions are recovered from many of the arrested youth, yet some of them were handed over back to their families after counselling. By doing so, their families have been saved from the adverse affects of the militancy.
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