Shopian Army Firing

The security forces are searching for two terrorists who fired at civilians in an escape bid after they were cornered near Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, a defence spokesperson has said.

The legal question of whether permission is required to file police cases against Army personnel will be settled by the Supreme Court, which is hearing an appeal by the father of an army officer posted in Jammu and Kashmir. Major Aditya Kumar was leading a convoy that allegedly opened fire on a group of civilians during a stone throwing protest in ...

A late night shootout at Shopian in south Kashmir resulted in the killing of two local terrorists and four civilians travelling in two vehicles. The Army says it retaliated after its check post was fired at from a car, in which the terrorists and their associates were killed.

The investigation into the death of three civilians killed in army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian in January has been put on hold by the Supreme Court today.

Two terrorists and four others were killed as security forces said they responded to an attack on a mobile vehicle checkpost in south Kashmir's Shopian last evening. While security forces claim that the three killed, who they say were travelling in a car with the terrorist, were his associates, locals allege that they were civilians. The bullet-rid...

No action can be taken for now against the army Major accused in the killing of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian last month, the Supreme Court said today.

A day after the father of the Army officer named in the case involving the deaths of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian approached the Supreme Court challenging the First Information Report or FIR, the court has agreed to hear his plea on Monday. The petition by Lt Colonel Karamveer Singh, a serving officer of the Indian Army, says the ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the Army had not filed any counter FIR in a firing incident in Shopian district in which three civilians were killed.

Hours after a top army commander in Kashmir called the police case against a Major-rank officer premature, the Army has filed a counter First Information Report, or FIR, over the attack on its soldiers that had forced them to open fire at protesters in Shopian district last week.

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Army sources today said that its soldiers, charged with murder over the death of two civilians in firing on protesters at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, "opened fire in a desperate situation". A crowd of protesters injured a soldier with stones and "threatened to burn" him, the Army sources said amid a massive political row between the s...

The inquiry officer appointed to probe the killing of two civilians allegedly in Army firing in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir will begin recording statements of witnesses from tomorrow.

Mobile internet services have been suspended in parts of Kashmir Valley amid a shutdown call by separatists today over the death of two civilians in Army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday evening. The Army says the firing was in "self-defence" when its convoy came under "unprovoked and intense stone pelting" by a mob. The p...

Two civilians were today killed when Army personnel fired at a stone-pelting mob in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to order an inquiry into the incident.

Two army personnel have been killed and three others, including a captain, have been injured in an encounter with terrorists in Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir, the police said. The body of a terrorist has been found.

The security forces are searching for two terrorists who fired at civilians in an escape bid after they were cornered near Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, a defence spokesperson has said.

The legal question of whether permission is required to file police cases against Army personnel will be settled by the Supreme Court, which is hearing an appeal by the father of an army officer posted in Jammu and Kashmir. Major Aditya Kumar was leading a convoy that allegedly opened fire on a group of civilians during a stone throwing protest in ...

A late night shootout at Shopian in south Kashmir resulted in the killing of two local terrorists and four civilians travelling in two vehicles. The Army says it retaliated after its check post was fired at from a car, in which the terrorists and their associates were killed.

The investigation into the death of three civilians killed in army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian in January has been put on hold by the Supreme Court today.

Two terrorists and four others were killed as security forces said they responded to an attack on a mobile vehicle checkpost in south Kashmir's Shopian last evening. While security forces claim that the three killed, who they say were travelling in a car with the terrorist, were his associates, locals allege that they were civilians. The bullet-rid...

No action can be taken for now against the army Major accused in the killing of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian last month, the Supreme Court said today.

A day after the father of the Army officer named in the case involving the deaths of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian approached the Supreme Court challenging the First Information Report or FIR, the court has agreed to hear his plea on Monday. The petition by Lt Colonel Karamveer Singh, a serving officer of the Indian Army, says the ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the Army had not filed any counter FIR in a firing incident in Shopian district in which three civilians were killed.

Hours after a top army commander in Kashmir called the police case against a Major-rank officer premature, the Army has filed a counter First Information Report, or FIR, over the attack on its soldiers that had forced them to open fire at protesters in Shopian district last week.

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Army sources today said that its soldiers, charged with murder over the death of two civilians in firing on protesters at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, "opened fire in a desperate situation". A crowd of protesters injured a soldier with stones and "threatened to burn" him, the Army sources said amid a massive political row between the s...

The inquiry officer appointed to probe the killing of two civilians allegedly in Army firing in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir will begin recording statements of witnesses from tomorrow.

Mobile internet services have been suspended in parts of Kashmir Valley amid a shutdown call by separatists today over the death of two civilians in Army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday evening. The Army says the firing was in "self-defence" when its convoy came under "unprovoked and intense stone pelting" by a mob. The p...

Two civilians were today killed when Army personnel fired at a stone-pelting mob in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to order an inquiry into the incident.

Two army personnel have been killed and three others, including a captain, have been injured in an encounter with terrorists in Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir, the police said. The body of a terrorist has been found.