NEW DELHI (PTI): Indian government will seriously examine the possibility of providing arms to the common people to fight militants in Doda district in the strift-torn Jammu and Kashmir Site. Central home minister S.B.Chayan saidin the lower house of the parliament (Lok Sabha) May 7 that the government would try to bring the Cantonment area nearer to Doda so that the district could be freed from militants. Sumitra Mahajan, a member of parliament, said that the entire Doda district should be handed Over to the army and added that People did not trust the Jammu and Kashmir state police.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 14, 1993
