Stage set for polling in crucial UP by-elections tomorrow
A total of 34 lakh voters will decide the fate of 90 candidates contesting the bypolls from nine assembly constituencies.
Suspected militants killed a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth leader in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said.
The throat-slit body of Gowhar Ahmad Bhat was found in a south Kashmir village, a police statement said.
Earlier on Thursday, a constable of 173 battalion of Border Security Force (BSF) belonging to West Bengal was killed due to unprovoked cross-border firing by Pakistan Rangers in the Samba Sector of Jammu division.
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The BSF constable identified as Tapan Mondal received serious injuries and later succumbed while being shifted to the Military Hospital in Jammu.
The 25-year-old Tapan belonged to Satui village of Murshidabad district in West Bengal.
He is survived by his mother Sumitra Mondal.
A spokesperson of BSF said that Tapan was injured when Pakistan Rangers opened unprovoked fire at a BSF patrol at 9.30 am in the Mangu Chak border post in the Samba Sector.
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