Amit Shah holds security review on Jammu and Kashmir. Here’s what was discussed

Weeks after the terror incident in Poonch, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir.

At the meeting, discussions took place about better coordination amongst the police, the Army and CRPF to strengthen security, sources told India Today TV.

The meeting also discussed measures to strengthen local intelligence, sources said.

Sources said that Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Army Chief General Manoj Pandey, Intelligence Bureau Chief Tapan Deka, RAW chief, Director General of National Investigation Agency, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, and Director General of Police RR Swain, and several other senior officials attended the meeting.

In the last few months of 2023, two terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, including one in Kokernag and another in the Poonch-Rajouri sector have raised a major concern for security agencies deputed in the sensitive region.

On December 22, 2023, four soldiers were killed and two injured when heavily armed terrorists ambushed two Army vehicles in the Rajouri-Poonch sector.

In September 2023, an Army Colonel, a Major rank officer and a Deputy Superintendent of Police were killed in a gunfight with terrorists in Kokernag area of Anantnag district.

Sources said that at least 34 security force personnel have lost their lives in eight terrorist attacks that took place in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two years.