Two Special Police Officers who went out to help the army were murdered: Bullet-riddled bodies found in the forest, service weapons also missing.
Delhi. Two Special Police Officers (SPOs) were murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district. They had been missing since Wednesday afternoon. Their bodies were found in a forest in the Dachan area during a search operation on Thursday morning. Both had multiple bullet wounds. Their service weapons are also missing. It is suspected that the attackers took the weapons with them after the murders.
The deceased have been identified as 45-year-old Rishipal Singh and 57-year-old Bobby Chand. They were traveling from Deharna in the Marwah area to Basnan. According to initial information, they were on their way to relieve a team from the Army's 17th National Rifles stationed there. At around 3:30 pm on Wednesday, gunfire was heard in the forest. Contact with the two was lost.
The bodies were found 2 kilometers away from the place where they went missing.
Upon receiving information about the shooting, a Special Operations Group (SOG) team and the station house officer (SHO) rushed to the scene. Security forces launched a search operation to find the two SPOs. The body of one of the SPOs was recovered around 8 a.m. Thursday, and the other at 9 a.m. Both bodies were found about two kilometers from the location of their disappearance.
Following the incident, a massive search operation is underway in the area. Security forces are searching the forests for the attackers. The biggest challenge facing authorities is locating the attackers and recovering the missing service weapons.
Mobile network was down during the firing.
Airtel's mobile network was also reportedly down in the Marwah area during the incident. However, no official connection has been established between the outage and the SPO's murder. Security agencies are investigating the entire incident.
BJP MLA Shagun Parihar expressed grief
BJP MLA from Kishtwar, Shagun Parihar, expressed grief over the killing of the two Special Police Officers (SPOs). He stated that they had been missing since Wednesday night and that their bodies were found on Thursday morning. The MLA blamed Pakistan for the incident and demanded immediate action against the culprits from Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
He said that the loss of two lives should be met with a response four times stronger. Shagun Parihar also stated that she would visit the scene. Currently, a search operation by security forces is underway to identify the attackers and determine the motive behind the killings.
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