Army goes for deployment of intelligence personnel along LoC

Jammu, Mar 28 (PTI) With apprehensions of an increase
in infiltration by militants into Jammu and Kashmir this
summer, the army has gone for deployment of intelligence
personnel along with regular troops and modern devices to
counter it.

"The security set-up along Line of Control has been
strengthened. For the first time intelligence persons and
units have been deployed along the LoC with Pakistan to
collect advance and target oriented inputs on infiltration,"
senior security officials told PTI.
Army chief General Deepak Kapoor had recently told
reporters in New Delhi after meeting Indian Union Home
Minister P Chidambaram that infiltration had increased in this
year. The Union Home Ministry has put figures of infiltration
at 60 this year so far.
Tactical deployment of forces has been done along the
LoC to check militants from crossing over, officials said.
The forces have also taken other steps such as
electrification of three-tiered border fencing and
installation of heat sensing electronic gadgets and night
vision devices (NVDs).
"As another tier of security inside the LoC, police
have set-up border posts for generating local intelligence to
foil infiltration bids," they said.
Security officials said infiltration also increased
during 2009. "During 2008, gross infiltration (attempts) was
estimated at 342 and net infiltration was 57 (those who
succeeded), whereas in the year 2009, the gross infiltration
was estimated at 485 and net infiltration was 113."
As per police figures, 535 infiltration attempts were
made in 2007, while 2006 reported 573 such attempts along LoC
and IB in Jammu and Kashmir.
The highest number 1373 infiltration bids took place
in 2003 followed by 537 in 2004 and 597 in 2005, according to
figures of the police.
An estimated 57 militants crossed over to this side in
2008 along the LoC, it was 311 militants in 2007 and 317 in
2006, police said. PTI AB
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