J And K Cops As Militant Seal Shops, Paste Threatening Posters

There have also been instances of armed militants walking into shops to warn owners to keep shutters down. The incidents of terrorists sealing shops and posters, both handwritten and typed, being pasted in markets, mosques and other areas with do and don’t diktats from different terror groups, have become a regular feature in Kashmir Valley. Armed militants are trying to spread fear among residents and defy the administration by forcibly shutting shops, sometimes by walking into the premises and intimidating owners, through threats made in posters that appear on walls overnight or by sealing shutters with tape, officials here say.

Jammu and Kashmir Police have officially kept mum with no one willing to come on record, but officials said on condition of anonymity that the situation could be slipping out of their hands. The incidents of terrorists sealing shops and posters, both handwritten and typed, being pasted in markets, mosques and other areas with do and don’t diktats from different terror groups, have become a regular feature in Kashmir Valley.

There have also been instances of armed militants walking into shops to warn owners to keep shutters down and barging into Jammu and Kashmir Bank branches in south Kashmir to ask employees to stay away from work.