JAMMU GUNFIGHT
camp when they were spotted by guards who were changing duties at a joint check post, the official added. Around the same time, a CISF bus carrying 15 personnel at Jalalabad near the camp was proceeding towards the Jammu airport. Apparently, in a knee-jerk reaction at around 3.45 am, the two terrorists lobbed a grenade towards the bus and sprayed it with bullets before escaping back into the nearby locality, prompting security forces to lay a cordon around the area, the official said.
A senior CISF officer said ASI S
P Patel was killed in the firing by the terrorists. Additional director general of police (ADGP) (Jammu) Mukesh Singh said the Special Operations Group and Central Reserve Paramilitary Force launched a joint search operation to trace the terrorists.
The gunfight began when the terrorists opened fire on the search party, the official cited above said. As the CISF personnel retaliated, the terrorists entered the house of a civilian, Mahommad Anwar Hussain, for shelter but were eliminated by the forces, the official added.
The encounter site is around 20 km away from the venue of PM Modi’s upcoming event.
The injured personnel were rushed to hospital in Jammu. Medical superintendent Dr ADS Manhas said while six personnel were discharged after first aid, four were undergoing treatment. Among the injured were head constable Balraj Singh, special police officer Sahil Sharma, head constable Pramod Patra, constable Amir Soran, constable Bittal and head constable SK Balian. affidavit difficult to accept and said: “Has any superior officer applied their mind on whether such a statement can be made on affidavit?. Is this the understanding of the higher officers or they have merely reproduced what is stated in the enquiry report?.”
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioners, told the court, “Please read the speech. I am not reading it. They say be ready to kill to protect the ethics of the community. This court may delineate what ethics are there in this issue. The speech was given by Sudershan News TV’S chief editor Suresh
Chavhanke”. The affidavit by the police said, “After inquiry and evaluation of the alleged video clip (of the Delhi incident), it was concluded that the alleged speech did not disclose any hate words against a particular community as alleged…and nothing was said or done which could create an environment of paranoia amongst any religion.”
Even the Uttarakhand government, responding on the action taken against the Haridwar hate speech event submitted a status report. But this was not considered as Sibal said that he did not wish to press that issue.