Security tightened in Jammu amid call for protests against Pahalgam attack

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
JAMMU, APRIL 22 (STC): Security has been tightened across Jammu following call for protests given by various organisations on Wednesday. The protest call has been given to condemn the deadly terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam which left at least 26 tourists, including tow foreigners dead.
The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress and several right-wing groups have announced major protests in Jammu city and elsewhere on Wednesday.
Officials said a high-level security meeting, jointly chaired by Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar and Inspector General of Police, Jammu, Bhim Sen Tuti, is underway at the Police Control Room here to chalk out a strategy to deal with the situation.
Additional police and paramilitary forces have already been deployed in sensitive areas as a precautionary measure to maintain peace and law and order, they said.
The Congress has asked all its leaders and workers of the Jammu urban and rural blocks and frontal wings to assemble at the party headquarters here on Wednesday morning for a protest against the terror attack.
The Shiv Sena (UBT), the Dogra Front and the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal, besides the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, lawyers and various market associations have also called for protests in the city on Wednesday.
(Inputs from agencies)