Pakistan Rangers on Saturday morning targeted a Hindu temple with mortars and damaged it in the Arnia sector of Jammu district.
According to the police, two residential houses and three cowsheds were also damaged due to the shelling.
Three cattle heads perished and an equal number were injured as the mortars landed on cowsheds.
Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked shelling at Sai and Treva, Jabowal villages in the Arnia sector.
The Border Security Force (BSF) forcefully retaliated the fire.
A BSF spokesman said that from mid night till morning there was an exchange of fire and shelling in Arnia Sector in the area of 6-8 BOPs of BSF but no human loss or injury was reported. The firing stopped at 6.45 am.
A BSF jawan was killed on Friday when a bullet fired from a Pakistan post hit his abdomen. Four Pakistanis were killed when BSF retaliated the fire.