The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which discussed the situation in Kashmir on Wednesday, decided to use Army as a “deterrent”, stating that security forces would ensure strict enforcement of curfew.
Sources said the CCS, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took stock of the situation in the light of the Centre’s decision to deploy army in the wake of deteriorating law and order situation.
Last night, at the request of the State government, the Centre decided to deploy the army to assist the civil authorities in restoring law and order in the wake of spiralling protests in Srinagar following the killing of three persons on Tuesday.
The meeting decided that the army would be used in “peripheral” areas and not in congested areas.
It also decided that the police and the security forces should ensure that there should be no violation of curfew and that it should be strictly enforced. The Cabinet also felt that “maximum crackdown” should be carried out against miscreants.
The Army staged a flag march in some areas of curfew-bound Srinagar Wednesday morning.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekar, NSA Shiv Shankar Menon, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar attended the meeting.
There was no official word on any decision taken at the hour-long meeting.
Earlier, Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju had said that the Army would remain on the streets in Srinagar till it was necessary but the government would like it to be short.
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