New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the national security strategies conference here on Monday during which deliberations were held on internal security challenges and measures to tackle them firmly.
Shah during the conference reviewed overall security matters across the country and policing issues with the DGPs, IGPs of all states and union territories.
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The conference at the Intelligence Bureau headquarters in the national capital was held both in physical and virtual mode, ANI reported..
Several DGPs and IGPs of the states and union territories attended the conference through virtual mode.
The heads of intelligence services and officers active on-field duties in sensitive areas also attended the conference.
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Intelligence Bureau Director Arvind Kumar and senior Home Ministry officials were among those, who attended the conference.
The conference, which was organised by the Intelligence Bureau, is learnt to be the review meeting of annual DGPs and IGPs meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December.
The conference assumes significance in view of the recent civilian killings in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the latest incident of civilians’ killings in recent weeks in Jammu and Kashmir, two more non-local labourers were shot dead by the terrorists and another injured in Kulgam district on Sunday.
Earlier on Saturday, two non-locals were shot dead by militants in Srinagar and Pulwama districts. Arvind Kumar Sah, a resident of Bihar’s Banka was shot at by the ultras outside a park at Eidgah in Srinagar. In another incident, militants fired at and critically injured Saghir Ahmad, a carpenter hailing from Uttar Pradesh, in Pulwama district.
Seven civilians, including four from minority communities, were earlier killed by the terrorists in Kashmir, triggering fear among the people in the valley.