Case registered against Rashtriya Rifles troopers for Kashmir shootout

September 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Eight people including an army major, a navy commando, two security personnel and four militants were killed during the 24 hours till Wednesday evening in two gunfights between the security forces and the guerrillas in north Kashmir, officials said. A major of the Rashtriya Rifles, Suresh Suri, and a security personnel were killed in Banyari area of Bandipora district Wednesday in a nearly-24-hour gunfight in which two guerrillas were also killed.

September 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Two Pakistani terrorists and two Indian security personnel were killed in a 24-hour gun battle in a north Kashmir village that ended Wednesday evening, an official said. Police identified the terrorists as Pasha and Musa, both working with Hizbul Mujahideen.

June 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Two paramilitary troopers died and four others received injuries Tuesday when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided with a bus carrying Amarnath pilgrims in Kashmir Tuesday. The pilgrims, who were in the bus returning from the Amarnath cave temple, escaped unhurt, police said.

June 1st, 2009 POONCH - In a joint para military-police operation, a huge cache of ammunitions including explosives was recovered in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Acting on a tip off, the Poonch police in coordination with the personnel of the 39 Rashtriya Rifles, a paramilitary force deployed in Kashmir, launched a search operation and the hideout was busted.

April 20th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A separatist guerrilla and a trooper have been killed in clashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, an army spokesperson said here Tuesday. Acting on specific information about the presence of guerrillas, troops of the Rashtriya Rifles started searches in Baramulla's Tangmulla forests Monday evening, spokesperson of the army's 15 Corps, Col Uma Maheshwar, told IANS.

March 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Five militants were killed Monday taking the death toll to 19 in the long drawn shootout that erupted between security forces and militants Thursday in a Kashmir forested area, officials said. A defence spokesman said four troopers injured in the shootout succumbed to their injuries Monday.

March 24th, 2009 RAIPUR - A Rashtriya Rifles soldier, who had decamped from Jammu and Kashmir with over Rs.5.9 million meant for his colleagues' salaries earlier this month, has been arrested in his home state of Chhattisgarh, police say. Sudhir Kindo, 30, a resident of Jashpur district, was picked up by Chhattisgarh police at a bus stand Monday from the state's industrial town of Korba.

March 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Six guerrillas were killed in an ongoing gunfight with security forces in Kashmir, as the death toll rose to 25 on the fifth day of the protracted battle Tuesday. 'The operation is continuing and today (Tuesday) six more terrorists were killed,' defence spokesman Lt.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An army enquiry has found one junior commissioned officer (JCO) and two soldiers guilty of having killed civilians in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year, official sources said here Friday. Two civilians were killed in a shootout by soldiers of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles on Feb 21 at Bumai village near Sopore town.

March 15th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Two guerrillas of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit were killed Saturday in a gun battle with security forces in a forested area of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The fight erupted after troops of 21 Rashtriya Rifles and the police launched a search operation in the Bawan forest area in Handwara in north Kashmir, around 100 km from here.

March 5th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said he would ensure 'exemplary punishment' to army troopers, if found guilty, in the alleged killing of two civilians in a Kashmir Village last month. A case was registered against troopers of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles for the Feb 21 shootout that killed two civilians at Bumai village near Sopore town, 50 km from here.

February 25th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's border guards Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), whose troopers mutinied in Dhaka Wednesday, has a military history going back more than 200 years. Today a paramilitary force guarding the country's 4,427 km long border, the Bangladesh Rifles was raised in 1795 as the Ramgarh Local Battalion.

February 25th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Senior separatist leaders were put under house arrest and business establishments as well as markets were closed Wednesday as the authorities clamped down to thwart a separatist march and shutdown in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital. Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chiefs of the two factions of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, were placed under house arrest Tuesday night.

February 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Tension prevailed in the Kashmir Valley with protesters clashing with the police at many places, including here, Monday, three days after the alleged cold blooded murder of two civilians by the army in Sopore town. Violent clashes occurred at Srinagar and north Kashmir Sopore town for the third day resulting in injuries to over two dozen protesters and security men.

January 27th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Four separatist guerrillas, including a top commander of Al-Badr terror outfit, and two soldiers were killed in three separate gunfights in the Kashmir Valley Wednesday, the police said. Abu Hamza, the operational commander of the Al-Badr, and a trooper of the 52 Rashtriya Rifles were killed in a fierce gunfight in Amargarh village of north Kashmir Sopore town, over 50 km from here, the police said.