The Indian government has ordered the extraction of two Border Security Force (BSF) battalions, comprising more than 2,000 personnel, from Odisha to beef up restrictions in the Jammu region along the India-Pakistan border.

According to a Kashmir Media Service report on Saturday, officials said the decision to immediately move the two units from the anti-Naxal operations grid to Jammu was taken in the wake of the recent spate of attacks in the region.

The troops of these two units are expected to be based in Samba and near the Jammu-Punjab border, they said. ‘Two recent meetings, one in New Delhi and one in Jammu, of the top security brass necessitated bolstering BSF deployment in Jammu,’ said a senior officer, requesting anonymity.