CRPF inducts 500 women personnel to counter protestors in Kashmir

Jammu | Sunday | 1st July, 2018

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This is the maiden team of women personnel in the Kashmir valley. “There are women personnel in regular CRPF and Rapid Action Force units in all parts of the country so why not in Kashmir? “This is the newest theatre of operations where women personnel have been brought in. These 500 women personnel will be deployed in downtown Srinagar and other parts of the valley very soon,” he said. A few years back, the CRPF women troops were inducted into the anti-naxal operations grid in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand,” the officer told PTI..