Ministry of Home Affairs is making arrangements to "urgently deploy" around 10,000 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel in Kashmir Valley, a copy of an order sent to Jammu and Kashmir government said.
In the fascimile addressed to chief Secretary, J&K government and others, MHA said, “we have to urgently deploy additional CAPFs in Jammu and Kashmir. It is requested to provide 100 companies of CAPFs to Government of J&K with immediate effect.”
A company had roughly 100 personnel. As of now, around 65,000 CAPF personnel are deployed in the region.
MHA said apart from 45 companies of CRPF, 35 companies of Border Security Force (BSF), 10 of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and 10 of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shall also be arranged.
The reason for such urgent deployment was immediately not known. The moves comes a week after the Pulwama terror attack where 40 CRPF were killed.