Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered an FIR against the personnel of Indian army after the latter allegedly broke into a police station in frontier Kupwara district late last night, wounding four cops. The army, however, has denied the charges.
The incident, sources said, took place day after a police team investigating the case against a local Territorial Army personnel raided his residence in Batpora-Kupwara in north Kashmir.
The move allegedly incensed the local army unit, which then barged into the police station, before roughing-up the cops ruthlessly.
Sources said that four policemen, including two Special Police Officers (SPOs) and two constables, were injured in the incident and were removed to Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura for treatment.
The injured cops have been identified as constables Zahoor Ahmad and Saleem Mushtaq, and Special Police Officers (SPOs) Imtiyaz Ahmad Malik and Rayees Ahmad Khan posted at Kupwara police station.
Police have registered an attempt to murder and case of abduction besides charging the accused army personnel under various other sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 182 and 332 and set investigation into motion.
“The number of army troops that stormed into the police station was impossible to count because it was dark outside. Some waited outside, but they were around fifteen. The angry army men weighed down the cops, injuring them critically,” sources told Kashmir Observer.
They said the case is of a criminal nature that might have enraged them, when questioned why the raid on the home of a local TA man did not augur well with the army, leading them to break into the police station and attack cops inside.
Refuting the allegations as baseless, the army in a statement said the minor altercation between the two sides led to arguments.
“An altercation between police and Army personnel and beating up the police personnel therein are misfounded and incorrect. Minor differences between the police personnel and a territorial army unit on an operational matter have been amicably resolved,” the statement reads.
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