Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday reviewed the security situation in the country, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir at a high-level meeting in New Delhi.
The meeting took place at Singh’s residence. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval attended the meeting.
The one-hour long meeting was also attended by Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and the heads of other security agencies, the sources said.
Sources said that during the meeting, top officials briefed the Home Minister and Defence Minister on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the gunbattle between militants and security forces in Pampore which ended late Wednesday evening.
The meeting also took stock of the situation along the Indo-Pak border and the Line of Control and steps taken to check attempts of infiltration from across the border.
Sources said that the officials also gave briefings on the overall situation in the country and steps taken to maintain peace in view of the ongoing festival season.
The Home Ministry has already sent an advisory to all states to deploy additional forces in sensitive places to foil any attempt by terrorists to disturb peace and attempts by miscreants.
Meanwhile, amidst escalating tension with Pakistan, Rajnath Singh will brief around 150 editors of regional media about the country's internal security and prevailing situation along the Indo-Pak border.
Singh, a key member of the Cabinet Committee on Security, will tell the editors of mostly regional newspapers published
and circulated in North and Northeast about various steps taken for strengthening the internal security apparatus as well as border security at a two-day conference to be held in Chandigarh next week.
Unrest in Jammu and Kashmir has been continuing ever since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani on July 8 that led to violent protests and clashes with security forces and death of 84 people.
Terrorists also killed 19 soldiers at an army station in Uri on September 18 which led to the surgical strikes by Indian Army on terror launch pads in PoK ten days later.
