Police file FIR against Army men for assaulting cops in Kupwara

Kupwara, May 30: Police registered an FIR against the Army men for barging and assaulting policemen at Police Station Kupwara on Monday night.

Sixteen Army men including three officers have been booked for attempts to murder, rioting, abduction, and robbery among other charges of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Five Policemen were injured in the attack when Army men allegedly barged into the Police Station Kupwara on Monday night.

The incident was reported after a Police party picked up a local Territorial Army soldier wanted in some investigation.

The Police in the FIR said, “A huge number of armed and uniformed personnel of 160 Territorial Army led by three officers unauthorisedly entered the premises of the Police Station Kupwara. They collectively, and without any provocation in the form of unlawful assembly, severely attacked the staff and officers present at the police station with rifle butts and sticks.”

It said: “The information was immediately conveyed to senior police officers who rushed to the Police Station to rescue them. Upon seeing the arrival of Police units and senior Police officers the alleged personnel and officers of 160 Territorial Army led by Lieutenant Colonel Ankit Sood, Raju Chauhan, and Nikhil snatched the mobile phones of the injured personnel and SHO Police Station Kupwara, Inspector Muhammad Ishaq and while fleeing abducted MHC Ghulam Rasool along with them and absconded from the spot,” the FIR read.

The Army men have been booked under Sections 186, 332, 307, 342, 147, 149, 392, 397, and 365 of the Indian Penal Code, and the 7/5 of the Arms Act.

The Srinagar-based defence spokesman Monday said that the reports of an altercation between Police and Army personnel and beating up of Police personnel therein were unfounded and incorrect.