Jammu: After the reported drone assaults in Jammu and suspected surveillance by terrorist organisations, authorities in J&K’s Srinagar district on July 4 banned the use and possession of drones and different unmanned aerial automobiles within the capital Srinagar.
This comes every week after two IAF personnel had been injured in twin drone-driven blasts on the technical airport in Jammu.
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An order issued by Mohammad Aijaz, district Justice of the Peace Srinagar, stated, “To secure aerial space near vital installations and highly populated areas it is imperative to discontinue the use of drones in all social and cultural gatherings to eliminate any risk of injury to life and damage to property”.
The order has been issued beneath part 144 of CrPc. The order says decentralised air area entry must be regulated in view of the current incidents of misuse of drones posing risk to safety infrastructure as reported by the media and different dependable sources.
“Moreover, the government departments using drones for mapping, surveys and surveillance in agricultural, environment conservation and disaster mitigation sector shall inform the local police station before undertaking any such activity in public interest,” it stated.
Srinagar has turn into a second district in Jammu and Kashmir to ban the use and possession of drones. Earlier, the Rajouri administration banned it within the wake of the Jammu assault.
Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir police are going round villages of the border areas and creating consciousness amongst villagers relating to drones.
