Posted on 07/02/2002 7:59:29 AM PDT by swarthyguy
Terrorists ambushed a night patrol party of army at Dodaj in Darhal area of Rajouri district last night killing an army jawan and wounding two others including a Naib Subedar.
Meanwhile, in another incident, police today recovered Rs 58,000 Indian currency from an agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
An army patrol which was heading towards a naka point in Dodaj under Darhal police station’s jurisdiction at 2100 hours last night was fired upon by a group of terrorists from atop a hill. Army personnel retaliated.
Exchange of firing between the terrorists and army jawans continued for about 20 minutes. The terrorists firing from a hill managed to escape after killing one army soldier and wounding two others. Enforcement of army and police rushed to spot from Darhal immediately after receiving a report of ambush and started a search operation for the terrorists, who had reportedly escaped towards a nearby forest area and remained untraced.
Deceased army jawan has been identified as Rifleman Ghulam Hassan and the injured as Naib Subedar Ravinder Kumar and Naik Zail Singh. Body of Ghulam Hassan was sent to his native village in Thanna Mandi area of Rajouri district while two injured soldiers have been admitted to a Military Hospital, where they were responding to treatment.
Army and police continued a search operation in Dodaj forests to track down the terrorists, who numbered between six to eight. However, no arrest had been made so far.
Our Udhampur correspondent adds: Police today recovered Rs 58,000 in Indian currency from a field at village Chandi in Reasi tehsil of Udhampur district. The money was recovered on the disclosures made by an ISI agent Fakar Din son of Gani Bakerwal, a resident of Balgi, Reasi, who had been arrested by police last month.
Fakar Din had broke down during sustained interrogation by police and disclosed the field, where he had dumped the money. Police said the money had been provided to Fakar Din by another ISI agent for working as a guide with the terrorists and helping them in moving from one place to another.
During the arrest of Fakar Din last month, police had recovered one pistol and two grenades from his possession.
Police said Fakar Din was an active member of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit. He had escaped in an encounter in upper reaches of Reasi ending May in which his two associates were killed. Police had succeeded in apprehending Fakar Din after about a week of the encounter.
Police said Fakar Din had also given some important clues about Hizbul Mujahideen network in Reasi.
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SRINAGAR, July 1:
A Kasmiri Pandit migrant and two infiltrators were among seven people killed while two senior counter insurgents survived attempt on their lives in the Valley during the past 24 hours.
An official spokesman said gunmen entered the house of one Arjan Nath at Kulgam in south Kashmir late last night and abducted Bansi Lal Bhat, an employee at the Accountant General’s office.
Mr Bhat, who had visited the village after his migration, was later shot dead in the outskirts of the village, he said.
Meanwhile, belying Pakistan’s claim about stopping infiltration, Army killed two militants trying to sneak into Indian territory in Kupwara sector in Kashmir this morning and recovered "war-like material" from them.
An Army patrol challenged militants after detecting their movement about 400 metres from Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara and shot dead both the intruders in a gunbattle, a defence spokesman said, adding a large quantity of "war like material" was recovered from the place of encounter.
Pakistan Army were abetting infiltration by resorting to unprovoked heavy shelling along the LoC in the area, he said.
While Islamabad may be claiming to have stopped infiltration completely, an attempt to help militants sneak across the LoC goes on unabated, he said.
As per intelligence reports, a large number of militants were concentrated in the close vicinity of Line of Control waiting to cross over, he added.
Elasewhere in the Valley, a released ultra Javid Ahmad was shot dead by militants at Neelo Kulgam while the body of another released militant Khazir Mohammad Parray was recovered at Danigwacha today.
At least one security force jawan was killed and a counter insurgent Mushtaq Ahmad Shah was injured when militants fired upon them at Batagund last night. Militants also took away their weapons, the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, people at Kathi-Darwaza in the Down Town took to streets today to protest against the death of one Ghulam Nabi allegedly due to torture by security forces.
The demonstrators, mostly women, alleged that he was arrested by security forces three days back and released only last night in a very critical condition. He was admitted to hospital where he died this morning.
A spokesman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference condemned the killing of Mr Nabi, a father of two minors.
Militants attacked the house of senior Awami League leader at Wakoora Ganderbal late last night with automatic weapons. Police guards posted there also returned fire and in the exchange one constable Nazir Ahmad was injured.
Another senior counter -insurgent leader and Sarpanch Bashir Ahmad Khan survived a close shave when militants fired upon him at Nadhihal Chowk Bandipora in north Kashmir last evening. The fire was returned by his Personnel Security Officer and in the exchange two women were injured.
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