Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 24 reviewed security situation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), including the borders, with focus on detention of political leaders, internet restrictions, anti-militancy operations and thinning presence of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in the Union Territory following normal conditions in the Valley, reports Daily Exceslior. Hours after the meeting, the Union M inistry of Home Affiars (UMHA) came out with an order directing withdrawal of 72 companies of CAPFs, comprising 7200 personnel, from J&K with immediate effect. The companies will revert back to their respective locations, the order said. As many as 24 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and 12 each from Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and SashastraSeema Bal (SSB) are being withdrawn from J&K. Only few days back following eruption of violence in some parts of the country in the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act, the UMHA had withdrawn about 50 companies of CAPFs from the Kashmir valley and deployed them in Assam. Large number of companies of the CAPFs had been deployed in J&K prior to scrapping of special Constitutional provisions of the erstwhile State and its bifurcation into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh on August 5, 2019.