Though police was expected to show its presence with Kashmir type mob control policing on Jammu streets Friday last week when violent mobs in presence of police torched dozens of private vehicles of Kashmiris almost twelve hours after the killing of 49 CRPF men in an attack at Lethpora Pulwama but nothing was done to prevent violent mobs from torching vehicles and damaging hotels of Kashmiris even after imposing curfew in main areas of Jammu city including Gujarnagar, Gumat Chowk and Shaheedi Cowk areas.
Had the acts of arson and ransacking witnessed in City centre areas in Jammu Friday last week been witnessed in Srinagar or any other place in Kashmir valley, the police would have used pellets and bullets to leave scores of protesters blinded and injured. Though Kashmiris becoming vulnerable to attacks from violent crowds in Jammu was expected immediately after the news about the killing of more than 40 CRPF men spread on social media networking sites but police did not bother to impose curfew as strictly in volatile parts of Jammu city as it imposes in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir valley within minutes after the news about the killing of militants or civilians spreads on social media networking sites.
True it is that Kashmiris tending to move to Kashmiri for their own safety could come under attacks from violent crowds at hindu dominated places on Jammu-Srinagar highway but police can offer them a safe passage to Kashmir by putting on alert additional deployments of police and paramilitaries on the highway for security and safety of Kashmir travelers.
Even after the torching of vehicles and attacks on the government employees putting up in estates department owned residential complexes in different areas of Jammu city on Friday last week, the violent crowds showed their presence in the Muslim dominated pockets of Jammu city on the second consecutive day on Saturday last week. Four days have elapsed since the day the vehicles were torched and hotels were damaged in city centre areas in Jammu, the winter capital of the state, but people of Kashmir desperate to flee from Jammu city to safer destinations on Jammu-Srinagar highway and finally their homes in Kashmir valley are not being allowed to move in private or hired vehicles from Jammu to Srinagar.
When police can’t make Kashmiris stuck in Jammu feel secure the only option for the government is to give safe passage to Kashmiris stranded in Jammu. True it is that Kashmiris tending to move to Kashmiri for their own safety could come under attacks from violent crowds at hindu dominated places on Jammu-Srinagar highway but police can offer them a safe passage to Kashmir by putting on alert additional deployments of police and paramilitaries on the highway for security and safety of Kashmir travelers.
