Jammu, Jan 22 , 2021: Unknown persons on Friday hurled a grenade at an Indian police party in Dadpeth on Chaatroo highway in Kishtwar in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Official sources told GNS that there was no loss of life or injury reported in the incident even as the entire area has been cordoned off by Indian troops to nab the attackers. It is after a very long time that any such incident has been reported in the district.
Confirming the throwing of the hand grenade on the police party, SSP Kishtwar Dr Harmit Singh Metha told GNS that investigations have been started in this regard.
“The area has been cordoned off and searches are underway. Further investigations are going on,” he added. (GNS)
The Jammu police Friday claimed that they have arrested two youth identified as Mohammad Kaif Lone and Waqas Bashir Lone—both residents of Bandiporawho were involved in the murder of a bank ATM guard, who was found dead inside guard chamber in Nanak Nagar area of Jammu last night.
An official said that a swift investigation by Jammu Police has claimed that the last night’s sensational murder of the ATM guard was executed by two youth belonging to north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
Notably, Raju Sharma, son of Gullu Ram hailing from New Plot area of Jammu, was found dead inside guard chamber of the bank ATM at sector 13 in Nanak Nagar at around 10 pm last night.
He further claimed that the Lone duo had gone to the ATM with the purpose of looting cash.
“On being resisted by the guard, they attacked him inside the rest room by initially smothering his face with a blanket.”
He said Kaif and Waqas had recently taken a place on rent in Nanak Nagar area where they lived as paying guests.source KNO
Meanwhile, an elderly man on Friday died during a scuffle in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that a scuffle between two relatives broke out at Tarzoo Sopore in which a 55-year-old man identified as Mohammad Khaleel got injured seriously after hit by his relative during the scuffle.
Khaleel was shifted to a sub district hospital Sopore by his family for treatment. However succumbed later.