Police and paramilitaries beating drums on curbing militancy and stone pelters in the aftermath of last year’s unrest is shamelessly regretting on remaining clueless about the movements and actions of bread choppers creating an atmosphere of insecurity across the length and breadth of Kashmir valley. Surprisingly the bread choppers started their ill designed offensive in muslim dominated districts of Pir Panchal area and extended operations first to Qazigund area in South Kashmir and then to other parts of Kashmir valley. The braid chopping mystery persisting in Kashmir valley has though resulted in thrashing of many innocents by the angered populations in many areas of the valley but the difficulties coming in the way of the cluelessness are not better explained by the helmsmen handling the investigation of braid chopping incidents in Kashmir valley. So for police department has taken only cosmetic measures like the operation of help lines for taking the feedback about the braid chopping incidents and announcement of cash rewards for those mustering the courage to inform police about the suspicious movement of braid choppers. Establishing help lines and announcing rewards for informers for the purposes of laying hands on the real culprits is not enough but what matters the most is the inability of the police to establish its own networks for arresting the real culprits. The only important explanation people want from the police is its inability to use same kinds of networks for arresting bread choppers which it uses for arresting militants and stone pelters day in and day out. Surprisingly the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti herself holding the portfolio of home department is not coming up with the clarifications on the cluelessness of the police about the braid chopping incidents and the occurrence and re-occurrence of braid chopping incidents only in muslim majority Kashmir valley.
Since the Union Home Minister and the Chief Minister are yet to wake up from deep slumber to address the issue of growing insecurity panicking civilian populations in Kashmir and as such mystery of braid chopping would continue till the Chief Minister sends out a message of answerability on each and every braid chopping incidents.
So for both the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti have not shown any concerned over unprecedented rise in the atmosphere of insecurity created by the occurrence and re-occurrence of braid chopping incidents. Had the Union Home Minister and Chief Minister shown concerns over the occurrence of re-occurrence of braid chopping incidents in Kashmir valley the situation won’t have gone from bad to worse during last two months. So for neither the Union Home Minister nor the Chief Minister has called a high level meeting to review the response of the police to braid chopping incidents in Kashmir Valley. The conduct of review meetings on braid chopping incidents by either the Union Home Minister or the Chief Minister would have sent out a message of answerability to the district police chief in Kashmir valley. Since the Union Home Minister and the Chief Minister are yet to wake up from deep slumber to address the issue of growing insecurity panicking civilian populations in Kashmir and as such mystery of braid chopping would continue till the Chief Minister sends out a message of answerability on each and every braid chopping incidents.