5 militants killed in Kashmir encounter
SRINAGAR: With the killing of another terrorist in an ongoing encounter at Reban village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday, the total number of ultras killed had gone up to five, officials said.
Kashmir Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar told reporters that the identity of the killed terrorists is being established.
Security forces said a joint team of Army and police threw a cordon around the village in the morning after specific intelligence input about the presence of terrorists in the area.
As the security forces closed in on the hiding terrorists, they were fired upon that triggered the encounter.
DELHI RIOTS: The special investigation unit (SIU) of the Delhi Police has charge-sheeted six people in connection with the murder of an octogenarian during the February riots in the national capital.
The charge-sheet was filed before a Metropolitan Magistrate of the Karkardooma court, the police said here on Sunday.
Akbari Begum, 85, who lived with her family on Gamri Road in the Bhajanpura area of northeast Delhi, died due to suffocation and asphyxiation.
“On Feb.25, a mob attacked and set on fire the deceased’s house. While other family members climbed to the rooftop, the deceased due to her old age could not do so and died due to suffocation,” the police said.
Her body was recovered from the second floor of the house after the fire was extinguished by the fire department personnel. “The body was found lying on a folding bed,” the police said.
An FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by Saeed Salmani, her son.
“On the ground and first floors was a garment workshop. The family of the complainant was living on the second and third floors of the four-storey house. The police rescued the family members from the rooftop. But the deceased couldn’t be rescued,” the Crime Branch said in a statement.
Earlier on Saturday, the SIU had filed another charge-sheet against seven people in connection with the murder of Rahul Solanki, 27-year-old law student, during the same riots. Solanki was shot dead near Shiv Vihar on February 24.