Samba/Jammu, PTI
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police R R Swain on Wednesday pledged to put an end to criminal activities in the Union Territory as he led a wreath laying ceremony for slain sub-inspector Deepak Sharma in Samba district.
Sharma lost his life in an encounter with gangsters inside a hospital premises in nearby Kathua district late Tuesday night. A wanted criminal, Vasudev, who headed ‘Shannu gang’ was killed in the gunfight.
Jammu police has taken its fight against narcotics and gangsterism to a new level in the recent past they will go at it hammer and tongs to finish the menace as attempts are being made to set up a Punjab-type criminal syndicate, Swain told reporters as the force paid tributes to the fallen officer.
A strategy is being chalked out and we will get to its roots. They (criminals) are getting involved in land deals, narcotics, bovine smuggling to encash on the growing economic activities in the region where development has been taken to a different level with setting up of industries, AIIMS and educational institutions, he said.
Terming the killing of the officer unfortunate, the police chief said an operation was planned on getting specific information about the movement of the wanted criminal who was under watch following a murder some three months ago.
