By: Sameer Lone
Srinagar: After a spate of attacks on elected public representatives, security forces and non-local labourers, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has taken a slew of measures. The shopkeepers and business unit owners have been ordered to install Close Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) to monitor suspicious moments of people.
Official sources told Precious Kashmir that the Deputy Commissioners of Anantnag, Srinagar and other districts have issued orders wherein the Financial and Business Units have been told to install CCTVs without any delay.
The Deputy Commissioners of Srinagar, Anantnag and some other districts of the Kashmir Valley have directed the business units to install the CCTVs within 14 days, a senior official said.
District Magistrate Srinagar Aijaz Asad has asked all Financial and Business Units to install CCTVs and inform the Station House Officer (SHO) of the nearest police station if any suspicious movement or activity is observed.
The order came into force from April 5 and shall remain valid for 60 days, “unless withdrawn earlier, and subject to further extension or modification”, the communique reads.
Officials said the selective targeting of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir requires several measures, including the use of appropriate technologies, to safeguard the “life and property”.
“Any contravention of this order shall attract legal consequences,” reads the order. It said a person can be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to 200 rupees or with both.
The order covers banking and financial as well as business establishments like banks/ATMs, jewellery shops, petrol pumps, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, cinema halls, wine and beer shops, eating joints, ready-made garment shops, showrooms, small markets, educational institutions, places of worship, bus stands, railway stations, airports, hospitals and offices where transactions are held in cash or are frequented by many people.