Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah’s security was breached on Friday when a police constable breaking the security cordon tried to move towards him raising slogans as the former was about to board the state helicopter after attending a function in RS Pura in Jammu district.
The chief minister was in the town to interact with the newly-elected panchs and sarpanchs when the incident occurred. However, before the police cop, identified as constable Sohan Lal, could reach him, the chief minister’s security personnel pounced upon him and took him in preventive custody.
While the breach in the security grid, the second incident of its kind, sent the entire security establishment into tizzy, Mr Abdullah himself tried to make light of the incident in his tweets by describing it as a “non-event” and the guilty cop as “unbalanced”.
In his first tweet on the incident, he remarked, “Wow, I can’t believe a non-event was made such a big deal of. My security wasn’t breached & I didn’t get face any threat from the chap.” Replying to some of his followers, he tweeted, “I’m really touched some of you cared enough to ask but seriously I didn’t even notice anything other than the fact that he seemed unbalanced.”
The police sources stated that the cop was mentally unstable and was not part of the chief minister’s security grid.
Notably, this is the second case of breach of security of the chief minister. Earlier, last year on August 15, a constable had thrown a shoe at the chief minister in Srinagar.