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Jammu and Kashmir: After 2020, 99% of passports have been checked by CID to provide uninterrupted service
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Jammu and Kashmir: After 2020, 99% of passports have been checked by CID to provide uninterrupted service

| @indiablooms | 09 Apr 2023, 05:25 pm

The Jammu and Kashmir administration says that the CID wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police has taken several important steps to provide uninterrupted passport verification services and since the year 2020, 99% passport verification has been done.

According to the statistics released by CID, in the year 2020, CID received 77,686 passport verifications, out of which 77,644 i.e. 99.95% were checked. 

In the year 2021, 75714 passports were received out of which 99.68% were checked. 

Similarly, in the year 2022, 134,315 passports were received, of which 128,939 i.e. 99.61 percent were verified.

"Security verification is done in a very professional manner before issuance of passports. Jammu and Kashmir Police has identified 54 young boys who were wrongly provided passport service during 2017-18," officials said. 

From then on, all of them migrated to Pakistan, were taken to terror camps, trained in arms, ammunition and explosives, many of them were pushed back across the LoC into Jammu and Kashmir and they  Of these, 26 were killed either while crossing the border or during encounters in the interior.

The lives of 12 of these young boys could be saved after their return from CID Pakistan, by bringing them into preventive custody, so that the terrorist separatist group could pressure them to join the terrorist ranks. 

Don't be  Eventually, all 12 have been handed over to their families. 

Today they are alive and living happily among their mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers and friends. 

Unfortunately, 16 of them are still trapped in camps controlled by hostile agencies.

In some cases the parents were not even aware that passport services had been extended to these young boys. 

intelligence and investigations have confirmed that in each case the Pakistan visa was arranged at the behest of a Hurriyat leader.  CID is committed to helping parents of vulnerable youths so that they do not fall prey to death traps.

J&K Police is committed to speedy and hassle-free clearance of more than 99% 'clean and green' and professional filtering of those who should be prevented from availing the service - some in their own interest. 

And some in public interest.  This data was collected by the CID wing of the police, raising several questions regarding the issuance of passports by the daughter of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.

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