Shopian Civilian Deaths

A teenager who was injured in firing by security forces on Sunday has died at hospital in Srinagar, police has said.

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.

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 ...

The father of the army officer named in the case involving the deaths of three men in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, has approached the Supreme Court. The petition by Lt Colonel Karamveer Singh, a serving officer of the Indian army, challenges the police case and says it violates the fundamental rights of his son, Major Aditya Singh. The petition als...

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...

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...

A man was killed today when security forces fired pellet guns in South Kashmir's Anantnag district to control protesters who were throwing stones at security forces. Another person died after being hit by a teargas shell in neighbouring Shopian.

A teenager who was injured in firing by security forces on Sunday has died at hospital in Srinagar, police has said.

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.

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 ...

The father of the army officer named in the case involving the deaths of three men in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, has approached the Supreme Court. The petition by Lt Colonel Karamveer Singh, a serving officer of the Indian army, challenges the police case and says it violates the fundamental rights of his son, Major Aditya Singh. The petition als...

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...

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...

A man was killed today when security forces fired pellet guns in South Kashmir's Anantnag district to control protesters who were throwing stones at security forces. Another person died after being hit by a teargas shell in neighbouring Shopian.