Drones, unmanned vehicles banned in Srinagar after Jammu attack

The Srinagar district administration has imposed restrictions on drones and similar unmanned aerial vehicles days after the attack the Jammu air force station using drones, believed to be operated from across the boundary with Pakistan. Mohammad Ajaz, Srinagar’s district magistrate, issued an order on Saturday banning the “storage, sale and possession, use and transport of drones and similar kinds of Unmanned aerial vehicles in the territorial jurisdiction of District Srinagar.”

“It is further ordered that persons already having the drone cameras/similar kind of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in their possession shall ground the same in the local police station under proper receipt,” Ajaz said in the order.