Overview
- In a letter dated March 13, the Deputy CM’s office said a bullet-resistant Fortuner requested for the March 15 Nowshera visit was not provided.
- J&K Police officials said Surinder Choudhary traveled in his personal non-bulletproof Fortuner during the tour despite repeated advice to use a protected vehicle.
- The motorcade’s jammer has been withdrawn for nearly six months for repairs and has not been restored, according to the Deputy CM’s communication.
- The office described the bulletproof, pilot and scout vehicles currently assigned as mechanically unreliable and linked them to prior serious or near-fatal incidents.
- Choudhary urged an immediate review with replacements and restoration of full cover, copying the request to the Lieutenant Governor and the Union Home Ministry, as Security Wing sources stressed threat-based allocation of scarce jammers; the push follows the recent shooting at Farooq Abdullah now under SIT probe with the suspect’s remand extended.