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Cops ganged up for Pulwama massacre

Cops ganged up for Pulwama massacre

Author: Sanjay Singh/ New Delhi
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: March 30, 2003

The surrender of arms by nine policemen deployed at Nadimarg police post on the fateful night when 24 Kashmiri Pandits were massacred by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) was a ploy to keep them away from their complicity in the crime, investigations revealed.
 
The role of cops came to light after the arrest of two persons who said, police co-operation implied that they would not resist the massacre.

Mastermind Abu Mahaz, a Pakistani commander of LeT in Pulwama, had planned the massacre to strike terror among the 8,000 members of minority community spread in 300 locations in the Valley. The conspiracy was hatched a week before the incident at Taripura where Hijbul leaders were called for providing logistical support. Divisional commander Arif Khan was part of the joint operation.

Timing and target were important factors in the operation aimed at disrupting Government plans of Pandit rehab.

A Home Ministry official said an important element to the conspiracy was to seek the co-operation of the local police without putting them in the dock. Local sympathizers and overground militant supporters in neighbouring Nadigram came in handy. The militants spent a week gathering information about the number of Kashmiri Pandits living there.
 


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