145 applications for return of Kashmiri militants worked out

He was talking to reporters after inaugurating Amar Jawan Jyoti at Police Martyr’s Memorial here.

The applications were filed in Rajouri,Doda,Kupwara,Baramulla,Kishtwar,Shopian and Bandipora districts.

The return and rehabilitation policy of the state government aims at facilitating the return of ex-militants who belong to Jammu and Kashmir and had crossed over to PoK for training in use of arms and explosives but had later given up terror activities due to change of heart and were willing to return to the state.

On the issue of mass grave in Poonch district,Khoda said,”These graveyards,let me tell you,are in the area where there is habitation,and the buried include militants,and people died of natural causes.

“If anybody has any particular complaint then definitely we will look into it,” he said.

To a question about the presence of Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the state,the DGP ruled it out.

Referring to HuJI’s e-mail sent from Kishtwar owning responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast,Khoda said,”National Investigation Agency (NIA),which is probing the case,has taken the arrested persons to Delhi for further investigations.”