Home Minister hands over job letters to kin of 10 martyred cops, engineer
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met the families of 10 police personnel and an engineer who lost their lives in various terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir over the past year and handed over job appointment letters to the next of kin, officials said.
The minister, who is on a three-day visit to the Union Territory, met the families at Raj Bhavan here, they said. He paid tribute to the martyred police personnel and expressed gratitude to their families.
Speaking on the occasion, Shah said for more than three and a half decades, J&K has suffered the devastating effects of terrorism. “We are proud of the sacrifice of our brave policemen who laid down their lives to protect our country, our homes and our future. Whole country is proud of the brave policemen who sacrificed their lives to protect the country,” he said.
He said significant progress has been achieved in tackling terrorism and ending separatist ideology, adding, “Our mission is still not accomplished, because terrorism has been curbed, but it has not been completely eliminated”.
Among the families who met the Union minister included the next of kin of four policemen who recently sacrificed their lives in a fierce gunfight with Pakistani terrorists in Kathua district.
Four policemen, head constable Jagbir Singh and selection grade constables Jaswant Singh, Balvinder Singh and Tariq Hussain, and two terrorists were killed in a fierce gunfight in the district on March 27. The wives of the slain policemen hailing from Kathua, Jammu and Reasi districts, along with relatives of six other police martyrs, were present at the event, the officials said.
The Home Minister urged the J&K government to take positive steps for compassionate appointment of 12-year-old Yuvraj Singh, son of martyr selection grade constable Jaswant Singh, upon attaining adulthood (18 years of age).
Ruchi Abrol, wife of engineer Shashi Bushan Abrol of the Talab Tillo area of Jammu, also met Shah. Abrol was among seven workers of a construction company killed in a terror attack at Gagangir in Ganderbal district in October last year.
The minister said no amount of words can take away the pain being felt by the bereaved, but the government’s gesture symbolises “our deep gratitude and the government’s unwavering commitment to stand with the families of the brave martyrs, just as the loved ones of the martyrs have stood by the nation”.
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