The GOC was accompanied by Major General Mukesh Bhanwala, GOC Tiger Division.
The armed suspects escaped towards the nearby jungle after consuming the food. However, they forcibly took with them a 13-year-old child who somehow managed to escape from their clutches.
Omar visited the families of the bravehearts, Balvinder Singh, Tariq Ahmad, Jaswant Singh, and Jagbir Singh, who laid down their lives in the line of duty during the Kathua encounter.
The body of another policeman was spotted on Friday by a drone near the spot of yesterday’s fierce gunfight in the far-flung forest area of the Kathua district, taking the death toll of the police personnel to four.
At least two Pakistani terrorists were killed in a gunfight with security forces in J&K’s Kathua district on Thursday when a fresh encounter broke out in the area.
Days after bodies of three men were found in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, two teenagers -- Deenu (15) and his nephew Rehmat Ali (12) -- have gone missing from Rajbagh area of the district, police said on Monday.
The police denied that Makhan Din, a 25-year youth, was tortured during questioning. Kathua District Magistrate and the police have ordered separate inquiries into his death.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday called for the effective implementation of all water supply schemes under the Jal Jeevan Mission in Jammu and Kashmir to achieve their saturation.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday refuted the claim of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on the “custodial death” of Makhan Din, a terror over ground worker, in Billawar area of Kathua district. The police claimed he had committed “suicide”.
Six persons of a family, including two children, died of asphyxiation when a fire erupted in a house in Jammu's Kathua early Wednesday, officials said.
