Baramulla:- The Deputy Commissioner of Baramulla, Bhupinder Singh, on Tuesday issued an order outlawing the sale, possession, storage, use and transportation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones in the district.
The order said the ban was necessitated by the “recent episodes of misuse of drones posing threat to security infrastructure”
“In the backdrop of recent attack on Air force station at Jammu by using drones/un-manned aerial vehicles. It has been apprehended that as an attempt of sabotage terrorists/anti national element may, with the help of technology like drone and other flying objects, by their best to hit their targets” the order issued by the district magistrate Baramulla reads.
The Jammu and Kashmir Administration has banned the sale, possession and use of drones in Srinagar, around a week after two blasts — believed to be done by a drone strike — targeted an Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Jammu and triggered a security scare.
(The Kashmiriyat News)
