Centre rushes five more CRPF companies to J&K to end killings

In the wake of recent targeted killing in Jammu and Kashmir, the union home ministry has ordered deployment of five more Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) companies, with around 100 personnels each, in the valley.

"The CRPF will deploy five additional companies in J&K within a week. The force had earlier sent 25 companies to the union territory" said a senior official. The announcement came a day after Ibrahim Khan, a salesman employed with Roshan Lal Mawa, was killed in the old area of the J&K capital.

On Sunday, constable Tawseef Ahmad Wani was killed in Srinagar's Batamaloo area.


Over the past few weeks, as many as 11 civilians, mostly non-locals, have been killed by terrorists in J&K.