J-K: Encounter breaks out between security forces and militants in Budgam

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Pathanpora area of Budgam in central Kashmir after receiving specific information about the presence of militants

An encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Thursday, PTI reported. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Pathanpora area of Budgam in central Kashmir after receiving specific information about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the hiding militants fired at the security forces. The exchange of firing is on and further details are awaited, the official said.

The encounter comes a day after security forces gunned down five militants in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, taking the number of ultras killed in the last four days to 14, police said. Two militants were killed in the initial exchange of fire and the forces had gunned down three more by the time the last reports came in.

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J-K: Four terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Shopian

The encounter has started at Pinjora village of the district. No casualty has been reported yet

Four terrorists were killed in an early morning encounter in Pinjora area of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. Police and security forces are carrying out the operation. The encounter took place between terrorists and security forces in Shopain district of South Kashmir.

Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation after receiving specific information about the presence of militants in the area, a police official said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter after militants fired upon a search party of the forces, who retaliated.

The exchange of fire is going on and further details are awaited. This is the second encounter in Shopian district in the past 24 hours. Five Hizbul Mujahideen militants, including a self styled commander, were killed in the gunbattle with security forces in Reban area of the district on Sunday.

J&K cop Davinder Singh who allegedly sheltered terrorists suspended

The DYSP had applied for leave from Sunday till Thursday, they said. Police had carried out searches at his residence here and seized two pistols and an AK rifle beside a large quantity of ammunition

Senior Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh was suspended on Monday, even as it emerged that he had sheltered three terrorists, arrested along with him, at his residence here right next to the Army’s XV corps headquarters at Badami Bagh cantonment, officials said.

Davinder Singh, who was decorated with the President Police Medal about four months ago, continued to be grilled by a team of police and intelligence investigators. His office at Srinagar airport, where he was posted as deputy superintendent of police in the anti-hijacking squad, was sealed, they said. Piecing together the chain of events, the officials said the two terrorists — self-styled district commander of banned Hizbul Mujahideen, Naveed Baba, and Altaf — were taken to the officer’s home on Friday by a lawyer Irfan, who the police said was an overground worker for terror groups.

Singh reported absent from duty on Saturday, the day he was apprehended by a team of policemen along with the other three at Mir Bazar on the national highway. The DySP had applied for leave from Sunday till Thursday, they said. Police had carried out searches at his residence here and seized two pistols and an AK rifle beside a large quantity of ammunition. Singh, whose name had been cleared for promotion as superintendent of police, is also likely to lose the gallantry medal that was awarded to him last year, the officials said. The DySP is deemed to have been suspended after having completed 48 hours in police custody, they said…