ISLAMABAD: Indian police have started using drones to keep a close eye onthe movement of people and anti-state demonstrations in occupied Kashmir.
A routine activity, it was also carried out manually by the policepersonnel in the past, Kashmir Media Service reported.
Local police officers told media that using drones would help theadministration conduct surveillance in Kashmir, besides cutting down themanual effort put into the mapping exercise.
A senior police official said more than 100 drones were provided to thepolice force in October and November, 2019, and that they were now beingused to conduct mapping exercises for setting up elaborate profiles oflocalities, which include details such as number of houses, shops, roads,religious places, and other establishments.
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Informed sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) government would use this information to execute its plan toimplement a demographic change in the occupied Muslim-majority region.