A 52-year-old former Army jawan, now employed as a security guard at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, died in a freak accident on Wednesday afternoon when a stray Chinese kite string slit his throat as he rode his motorcycle to work, police said.
As the death of an 18-month-old child of a soldier deployed at the Indo-China border, due to medical negligence, triggered widespread condemnation, Uttarakhand chief minister on Thursday ordered a probe into the matter and assured action against guilty officials.
Murali Naik, an Indian Army jawan from Andhra Pradesh (AP), was killed during cross-border firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday night. He was a resident of Kalli Thanda village under Gorantla mandal in Sri Sathya Sai district of AP.
As per SSB, the Army jawan had fallen into a ditch after he lost control of his motorbike
According to police officials, the police teams investigating the crime succeeded in zeroing in on the suspect within 12 hours of the robbery by following the footage available from various CCTV cameras.
Earlier, on Monday in an encounter in the Kashmir’s Shopian district three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were gunned down by the security forces, including top Hizbul Mujhahideen commander Wasim, Adil Bashir and Jehangir.
According to army sources, the army has deployed around 500 people that include Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Border Road Organization besides army men, sniffer dogs and even the locals were also chipping in to help.
Two separate parties of Army and ITBP were patrolling Namgia Dogri when the avalanche hit them.
The official said as the security forces were carrying out searches, the militants opened fire on them, resulting in injuries to one soldier.
Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore dubbed the reported killing of an Army jawan by militants as “frustration of coward terrorists”,…
