The move implemented Friday yielded immediate results. Law enforcement managed to nab two stone-pelters leading a 100-plus mob of people in downtown Jama Masjid in Srinagar.
What happened was that after Friday prayers at Jama Masjid, a crowd of people started pelting stones at the police and at CRPF personnel. The crowd swelled to a mob of more than a 100 people with two repeat-offender stone-pelters leading the agitation.
Then, to the complete surprise of the two stone-pelting leaders, they were grabbed by policemen who were disguised as them and had been covertly placed among them. The astonished duo was whisked away to vehicles waiting to take them to a police station. And to keep at bay the crowd while the two were being taken to the vehicles, these policemen pointed toy guns at them.
Not only did the move to catch stone-pelters yield arrests, it also led to the protest ending early, with the crowd completely perplexed about what was happening.
The J&K police used the same method in 2010 when scores of them were deployed within a mob to identify and arrest stone pelters.
Two years ago, a similar strategy was adopted by the Israel Defence Force. In a video that went viral, a group of Israeli policemen are seen infiltrating a crowd of Palestinian stone pelters and arresting many of them.
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(With inputs from agencies)
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