In search for militants who killed soldier, villagers in Jammu, key challenges: Dense foliage, tough topography
Northern Army Commander visits Jammu-based White Knight Corps headquarters to review operational preparedness.
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Searches for the militants continued on Tuesday, but sources said there had been no contact with the militants since 3.30 pm Sunday.After a Junior Commissioned Officer and two village defence guards were killed in two militant attacks in the Chatroo area of J&K’s Kishtwar district last week, security forces have rounded up several people for questioning in an area where, according to sources, thick foliage and difficult topography have posed a challenge to the search for the militants.
On Tuesday, Northern Army Commander Lt Gen M V Sudhindra Kumar visited the White Knight Corps headquarters in Jammu district’s Nagrota to review operational preparedness of troops.
In a post on X, the Army’s Northern Command said Lt Gen Kumar “exhorted all ranks to maintain the highest standards of professionalism and alertness in anti terrorist operations”.
Later, the General Officer Commanding of the White Knight Corps, Lt Gen Navin Sachdeva, visited Kishtwar sector to review the ongoing counter-terror operations.
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army’s Special Forces was killed and three soldiers injured — two of them critically — in a fierce gunbattle with militants on Sunday in the dense forests of Keshwan on the higher reaches of Kishtwar. The same militants had abducted and killed two village defence guards on Thursday, according to the Army.
Searches for the militants continued on Tuesday, but sources said there had been no contact with the militants since 3.30 pm Sunday.
A senior police officer told The Indian Express that while security forces were relentlessly carrying out searches in the forests, police were also rounding up suspects for questioning to ascertain the whereabouts of militants, who are believed to be around three to four in numbers.
Meanwhile, Kishtwar District Magistrate R K Shavan has slapped the stringent Public Safety Act on five alleged overground workers (OGW), who allegedly helped militants.
They were identified as Mohammad Abdullah Gujjar of Sigd Bhata, Noor Din of Kakerwagan, Ghulam Nabi Choppan of Trungi, Mohammad Jaffer Sheikh of Nattas (Dool), and Mohammad Ramzan of Dangduroo (Dachhan).
According to officials, the alleged OGWs were already involved in “anti-national” activities and there was every apprehension that they would “disturb public order and threaten the security of the state”.
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