Nothing can justify the aggressive mobs of Kishtwar looting firearms and ammunition from a local gun factory in the heart of the town on August 9. Police and civil authorities in Kishtwar should make full enquiries.
Secondly, it is 15 days and thirty one guns are still untraced. It is a reflection on local police and speaks of its inefficiency. But it can also be concealment with connivance of the police authorities. Therefore higher authorities should immediately conduct an enquiry side by side whether there is deliberate attempt by the local police to procrastinate recovery of the arms. It is common sense that as long as these weapons and ammunition remain untraced and unrecovered, peace in Kishtwar will be hanging in balance. Those in whose hands the guns have fallen would not want to let the weapons collect rust. Moreover, since the hand of the militants is clearly visible behind the perfidy in Kishtwar, there is every apprehension that missing guns could be misused at any time and spark another spree of vandalism in the disturbed town.
Hints are thrown that the looted arms might have been passed on to the militants. This seems a far fetched conjecture. Militants are equipped with very sophisticated weaponry provided to them by ISI. 12 bore rifle is of no use to them directly. But since the indoctrinated youth are under their influence and attacking the minority is the strategy to disrupt peace and tolerance among the local people, the looted guns remain a very serious threat to the peace in Kishtwar. One fails to understand why the police have not been able to recover the booty during last 15 days. What extraordinary steps and decisions have the police authorities taken to recover the looted guns? The Government should take a note of a dangerous situation in Kishtwar.
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