Sixteen Army personnel, including three Lieutenant Colonels, were named in a First Information Report (FIR) for allegedly barging into a police station, beating up and kidnapping policemen in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Wednesday night.
The incident was also caught on a camera inside the police station. Several Armymen were seen entering the police station, dragging and thrashing up policemen in the video, which is now viral. The incident took place around 9:40 p.m. at the Kupwara Police Station following a police raid of a house of a local territorial Army man in a case during the day.
“A huge number of armed and uniformed personnel of 160 Territorial Army led by Lieutenant Colonel Ankit Sood, Lieutenant Colonel Rajiv Chauhan and Lieutenant Colonel Nikhil unauthorizedly entered the premises of the Police Station Kupwara,” the FIR said.
Unprovoked attack
It said the Armymen collectively and without any provocation in the form of an unlawful assembly, severely attacked the staff and officers present at Police Station Kupwara with rifle butts, kicks, and sticks.
“Immediately, information was conveyed to senior police officers upon which they rushed and came to this police station to rescue the police personnel being attacked over there. Upon seeing the arrival of the police units and senior police officers, the alleged personnel and officers of 160 Territorial Army led the Lieutenant Colonels brandished their weapons, snatched the mobile phones of the injured police personnel and Station House Officer, Kupwara, Inspector Mohmmad Ishaq,” the FIR said.
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