Tag: Rashtriya Rifles

Three militants killed in Kashmir gunfight

Three militants were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district, police officials said on Monday. According to the police, as the searches were being conducted, the militants hiding in the village opened fire on the forces, triggering off a gunfight. Security forces first shot dead two militants and then a...

January 8, 2018

Militant killed in ongoing gunfight in Kashmir

A militant was killed on Monday in an ongoing gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district. As per Police official, The Army’s Rashtriya Rifles, the Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of state police launched a cordon and search operation in Kaneera village after inputs about the presence of...

January 8, 2018

J-K CM Mehbooba condemns attack on CRPF camp

Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, has condemned the killing of CRPF jawans, including an officer, in a midnight attack at a CRPF training centre at Lethpora in Pulwama district on Sunday. Four CRPF troopers and three militants were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday after guerrillas attacked a CRPF...

December 31, 2017

Security forces launch search operation in J-K’s Shopian, Pulwama

Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday started massive search operations in Shopian and Pulwama districts following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of militants, police said. A joint team of the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) started house-to-house searches in...

November 11, 2017

Two IAF personnel killed in gunfight belonged to Nashik, Bihar

Two Garud commandos of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and equal number of terrorists of Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), were killed in an encounter at Hajin in the Bandipura district on Wednesday morning. One of the killed terrorists was a Pakistani national and was operating in J-K. The martyred IAF personnel were operating with the Army for operational experience...

October 11, 2017

One militant killed in encounter in Sopore

An unidentified militant was today killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore township of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. Acting on specific intelligence input about the presence of militants in Reban area of Sopore, security forces launched a “cordon and search operation” this morning, a police official said. When the forces were...

September 9, 2017

Gunfight erupts in J-K during search operation

A gunfight erupted on Saturday between holed up militants and the security forces in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. Receiving specific inputs about a militant hide-out, security forces including the Rashtriya Rifles and the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police surrounded Reban village on the outskirts of Sopore...

September 9, 2017

LeT militant who murdered Lt Ummer Fayaz killed in encounter

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Ishfaq Padder involved in abduction and murder of Rajputana Rifles (RR) Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz in May this year was killed by security forces on Saturday in an encounter in the Kulgam district of South Kashmir on Saturday. The encounter led to clashes between security forces and youths in Srinagar and Anantnag The...

September 2, 2017

Two FIRs registered against Army in Kashmir in a day

The police in Kashmir have registered a FIR against a Rashtriya Rifles (RR) unit of the Army after some soldiers in civvies allegedly thrashed six policemen and ransacked a police post in the Ganderbal district late on Friday night. This is the second FIR in a single day registered against the Army by the Kashmir police. Earlier,...

July 22, 2017

Soldier shoots himself with rifle near LoC, suicide suspected

A soldier allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself near the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu region, police said on Wednesday. The soldier has been identified as Lance Naik Vishal Lohan of the Rashtriya Rifles. According to the police FIR, the soldier shot himelf dead with his service rifle in Laam sector on Tuesday...

May 3, 2017

The human shield

On April 9, while polling was being held during byelections in Kashmir Valley, Major Beetul Gogoi, serving as a Company Commander with a battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles, received an SOS call from the local police to rescue the staff and police personnel of a polling booth in Budgam district from a rampaging mob of...

May 2, 2017

Army cracking?

When the Army chief issued his rather controversial “warning” to stone-pelters in the Kashmir Valley, was it an early symptom of a frustrated force abandoning one of its most cherished professional traditions ~ the capacity to refuse to be provoked into rash action? Precisely two months from the day of his “talking tough”, a video...

April 16, 2017