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J&K Police have said that 100 new companies of paramilitary forces, which have been cleared for deployment in Kashmir, were not an addition to the existing security grid, but a replacement for equal strength of the forces, on way out from the Valley.
J&K Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) law and order (security), Munir Khan asked people not to pay heed to rumours.
“The new companies arriving in Kashmir are not additional forces. They are replacement for equal number of companies which are in Kashmir since Municipal and Panchayat polls last year, and have to attend training in various parts of the country,” Khan said.
The Union Home Ministry order mentions that 100 additional companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) have been cleared for deployment in J&K, to strengthen the counter-insurgency (CI) grid and maintain law and order situation in the state.
The additional deployment will include 50 companies of CRPF, 30 companies of SSB and 10 companies each of BSF and ITBP.