Security posers

The killing of Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmad Lone may have sent the authorities back to the table to consider how to tighten security, but if there is anything the state doesn8217;t lack, it is plans:

With no polling booth certified normal, each is to be manned by paramilitary forces such as the BSF, CRPF, Railway Protection Force and commando units.

While some 1.2 lakh paramilitary troops are permanently stationed for counter-insurgency and internal duties in Kashmir, they have been reinforced by 10,000 Rashtriya Rifles troops, plus the 15 Corps headquartered in Srinagar and the 16 Corps in Udhampur. The 60,000-strong Kashmir police will be backing them all.