Malkangiri: Two Border Security Force (BSF) battalions, totaling over 2,000 soldiers, are being pulled from Odisha on orders to increase security in the terror-hit Jammu area near the Pakistan border, official sources said on Saturday.
Following a recent wave of terror assaults in the area, the decision was made to “immediately” relocate the two units from the anti-Naxal operations grid from the Malkangiri district of Odisha to Jammu, official sources told PTI.
The two BSF units will be deployed as the “second line” of defence behind the first tier of its units deployed along the international border in the Jammu area to check infiltration of terrorists, the PTI report added.
The troops of these two units are expected to be based in Samba and near the Jammu-Punjab border.
There was a proposal to move two BSF battalions from Odisha to Chhattisgarh to intensify anti-Naxal operations but these units are being sent to Jammu, given the current situation, the sources added.
