{"id":303857,"date":"2018-10-07T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T08:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303857"},"modified":"2018-10-07T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T08:58:26","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-high-security-ahead-of-municipal-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-high-security-ahead-of-municipal-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: High Security ahead of municipal polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300677 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-543x420.jpg 543w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security was beefed up on Sunday across\u00a0Jammu\u00a0and Kashmir for the smooth conduct of municipal polls in the Kashmir Valley slated to begin from Monday, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four-hundred additional companies of central paramilitary forces have also arrived in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many check-points have been placed in the city, vehicles which are entering in the city are being thoroughly checked. Sniffer dogs are also being used to check vehicles to avoid any untoward incident, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All contesting candidates have been lodged in secured locations and some have been given a security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official, deployment of forces has been worked out and sensitive areas have been taken care of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Areas around the polling booths have been sanitized to ensure free and fair polling on Monday,\u201d official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Municipal elections will be held on Monday across Jammu and Kashmir. The major focus of the security forces is to ensure the security of voters and smooth functioning of elections without any hurdle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security was beefed up on Sunday across\u00a0Jammu\u00a0and Kashmir for the smooth conduct of municipal polls in the Kashmir Valley slated to begin from Monday, police said. Four-hundred additional companies of central paramilitary forces have also arrived in the state. Many check-points have been placed in the city, vehicles which are entering in the city are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303859,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303857\/revisions\/303859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}