Srinagar, Oct 22: In a major crackdown, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered the shifting of at least 26 jailed “overground workers” (OGWs) to jails outside the Union Territory, officials said on Friday.
Most of these inmates are booked under the Public Safety Act, they said. The PSA allows for detention from three months to two years without a trial of a person.
“The jailed terror operatives have to be shifted from different jails in Jammu & Kashmir to Central Jail in Agra, Uttar Pradesh,” a government functionary said, adding that more jailed people may be shifted in the coming days outside the UT.
It is learnt that police have categorised the overground workers on the basis of their involvement in militancy.
After a series of killings of civilian in targeted attacks earlier this month, police had detained over 500 people who they said were either over ground workers or were connected with militancy one way or the other in the past.
