Jammu & Kashmir

8 Army personnel booked for physically assaulting 3 people in JK’s Ramban

Ramban: A case was registered against eight Army personnel on Wednesday for physically assaulting roughing three people in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir; Press Trust of India reported quoting police officials.

The case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code was registered at Banihal police station against a column of eight personnel of a Rashtriya Rifles unit on the complaint of a sarpanch, the report said quoting a police official.

The sarpanch, Panchayat Mahoo-Khari, came at Police Post Khari along with the injured – Mohammad Rafiq, Bilal Ahmad and Abdul Rasheed – and alleged that they were physically assaulted by the army personnel without any provocation when they were going to Upper Trana forest area for buying sheep and goats.

The complainant also alleged that the army personnel also snatched their mobile phones and some cash from them at Gadha Nala, the report quoted the official further saying, adding police have taken cognizance of the matter and accordingly registered a case against the army personnel.

He said the injured have been admitted to Public Health Centre Khari and are undergoing treatment.

 

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