The CRPF alleged some army troopers arrived at the scene after the encounter was over and started clicking selfies with the bodies of the slain terrorists.
Highlights
- Army, in a tweet, claimed to have killed terrorists in retaliatory fire
- Central Reserve Police Force lodged protest for 'wrongly claiming credit'
- Northern Command tweeted clarification that terrorists killed by CRPF
Three tweets posted by the army on the attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore on Saturday, in which eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorists, betray a nasty battle for credit that allegedly erupted between the security forces after the encounter.
In its first tweet, the army claimed its troops had killed the two terrorists who had opened fire on a bus in which a contingent of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was travelling.Fuming officers of the CRPF reportedly complained to the army that some of their personnel arrived after the encounter and took selfies with the bodies of the terrorists. The CRPF also said the army men took away the bodies and the weapons, apparently to claim credit.
A revised message was soon posted on Twitter.The tweet failed to mollify the CRPF officers, who insisted that there was "no joint operation."
"They were wrongly claiming credit for an operation on which they had no clue," the Press Trust of India quotes an unnamed CRPF officer as saying.
The army, reportedly shown videos of its personnel taking selfies, posted another tweet correcting itself.CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad, asked by reporters yesterday on whether the army had played any role in the encounter, said: "Army's 51 RR (Rashtriya Rifles) unit reached the spot after the incident got over."
The army has not officially commented on its tweets.