With a view to break nexus of militants lodged in high security Kot Bhalwal Jail and some other prisons in Jammu and Kashmir with terror elements operating outside, the Intelligence agencies have shifted 96 detenues, majority of them terrorists, to different jails in New Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh while the process is on to shift more after identification.
Fifty six detenues including 53 militants involved in major terror activities and apprehended during encounters and searches in Jammu and Kashmir and three criminals booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) have been shifted to jails outside the Union Territory from Kot Bhalwal jail, official sources told the Excelsior.
Rest 40 have been moved out from other jails of Jammu and Kashmir including Central Jail Srinagar, they said.
“They were taken out of the jails and shifted to Haryana, New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh under tight security arrangements. The Jammu and Kashmir administration had already entered into an arrangement with the Governments of Haryana, New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for lodging hardcore militants there to break their nexus with outside terror world which they were managing while being kept in the jails of J&K,” sources disclosed.
