Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

JEM puts out photos of jawan’s belongings month after killing

- Ravi K Khajuria

We suspected from the beginning that it (killing of jawan Narendra Kumar) was an act carried out by terrorists with Pak Rangers’ involvemen­t RAM AWTAR , Inspector general of BSF’S Jammu frontier

JAMMU:A month after abducting and torturing Border Security Force(bsf) trooper Narendra Kumar to death in the Ramgarh sub-sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, the Jaishe-mohammed (JEM) terrorist groupt has released pictures of the slain jawan’s weapon, ammunition magazine, bulletproo­f jacket and mobile phone on the social media.

Inspector general of BSF’S Jammu frontier Ram Awtar confirmed the developmen­t.

“JEM has released pictures of weapons, magazine, bulletproo­f jacket and a mobile phone on social media. These belonged to the slain jawan Narendra Kumar”

He added, “We suspected from the beginning that it was an act carried out by terrorists with active involvemen­t of Pak Rangers.”

The IG added: “In the past too, the Rangers were directly involved in perpetrati­ng such dastardly attacks on BSF men on the borders. The act shows their criminal intent towards India and our brave border guards.”

On September 18, head constable Narendra Kumar, who was part of a four-member team, was ambushed, abducted, taken to the other side of the internatio­nal border and then tortured to death .

His throat was slit and eyes were gouged out.

After nine hours of searches, his mutilated body was found near the Internatio­nal border in Ramgarh. He belonged to Sonepat in Haryana.

Appalled by Kumar’s brutal killing, India cancelled a planned meeting between external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan foreign minister on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.

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