SOLDIER WHO WENT INTO HIDING AFTER KILLING SENIOR SURRENDERS
The Defence Security Corps (DSC) jawan who went into hiding after allegedly killing his senior at an ordnance factory in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district surrendered on Monday after almost 38 hours, a police official said.
The incident took place on Saturday when havaldar Sakat Singh (aged around 55) fired five shots at Naib Subedar Ashok Shikara (45) from a rifle around 7.55 pm.
Singh then hid himself somewhere in the Ordnance Factory Katni’s (OFK) huge compound having many buildings and tall bushes, giving anxious moments to DSC officials and police.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh in presence of MoS at PMO Jitendra Singh(left) and CDS Bipin Rawats speaks during dedication of 44 major permanent bridges to the Nation
Rahul Singh
India’s northern and eastern frontiers remain tense, with Pakistan and China creating conditions that seem to suggest that “a border dispute is being created under a mission”, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday while drawing
attention to the collusive threat posed by the two adversaries.
“You are well aware of the conditions created on our northern and eastern borders. First, it was Pakistan, and now also by China, as if a border dispute is being created under a mission. We have a border of about 7,000 kilometres (km) with these countries, where tension prevails on a daily basis,” Singh said, while virtually inaugurating a raft of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) projects to provide connectivity to forward areas.
The minister’s comments come at a time when tensions are simmering along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan and the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, where Indian Army and the PLA have been locked in a border row for over five months and efforts to reduce friction have made no headway.
“Given the symbiotic relationship between China and Pakistan, a collusive threat to India cannot be ruled out. The question is when it is viable for them to initiate a conflict against India,” said Lieutenant General BS Jaswal (retd), a former Northern Army commander. As India remains focused on scaling up its border infrastructure, Singh dedicated 44 bridges in forward areas to the country, including 10 in J&K, eight each in Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Arunachal, two in Himachal and four in Sikkim, whose spans range between 30 and 484 metres.