AGENCY
New Delhi: With PAVA shells not meeting the expectations of the security forces in tackling the violent mobs in Jammu and Kashmir, the agencies have prepared a new list of gadgets, to be procured to quell the protesters effectively such as bunker periscopes, ear-deafening acoustic devices and electro-magnetic shock-delivering sticks.
Officials said the list has been prepared following a series of high-level meetings and approvals of various agencies such as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF), J&K Police, central security agencies and the Union Home Ministry.
The most powerful but non-lethal device the forces desire to procure is the Long Range Acoustic Device (LARD) which produces an irritating, terrible and deafening 140-decibel sound to keep protesters away from its ‘screaming’ range.
An LARD immobilises the target immediately and the state of shock remains for some time, thereby providing an opportunity to the forces to nab it.
Keeping in mind the situation in the Kashmir Valley where protesters hurl bricks and shrapnels from narrow lanes and by-lanes, the security agencies wish to procure a ‘tactical periscope’ which stealthily monitors the “activities of unruly mobs” by jutting out of a bunker or from behind a wall, without exposing the location of the forces.
