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Srinagar, June 18, 2023 (PPI-OT): Ahead of the forthcoming Amarnath Yatra, additional 85 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) companies are being inducted into Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, the authorities had announced to deploy 60,000 additional personnel in the area to protect the yatrees.
The 62-day long annual pilgrimage is commencing from July 1 and the 85 companies, including six woman coys, are mostly being inducted in the Valley, officials said. A paramilitary CRPF official said that 75 of the coys, each comprising about 135 personnel, are being deployed in south Kashmir, central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district and in Bandipora district of north Kashmir. Ten companies are being deployed in Jammu, the official added.
Notably, this deployment will be in addition to tens of thousands of the troops already deployed across the territory and the deployment of more troops will further increase the misery of the Kashmiris who are under the constant siege since 5 August 2019.
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