The Union home ministry will look into reports of insufficient number of bulletproof vehicles available for police officers in Jammu and Kashmir.
The reports had said that police officer Feroz Ahmed Dar, who was killed in a terror attack last week, had requested for such a vehicle several times.
Dar, the 32-year-old Station House Officer (SHO) of Achabal, and five other policemen were killed on June 16 in a gruesome ambush in Anantnag district by suspected Lashker-e- Taiba terrorists.
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The militants also tried to disfigure the faces of the six policemen before walking away with their weapons.
The Centre was looking into whether Jammu and Kashmir Police officers were getting adequate bulletproof vehicles, official sources said today.
They said the responsibility of purchasing bulletproof vehicles was with the state government concerned. The Centre reimburses such expenditure under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme.
Media reports claimed that Dar, who survived a grenade attack last year, had been facing constant threats ever since his posting in Shopian and Anantnag town.
He had requested for a bulletproof vehicle which was not provided to him, they said.
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