16 Armymen, including 3 Lieutenant Colonels, booked after raiding police station in Kashmir’s Kupwara
The HinduSixteen Army personnel, including three Lieutenant Colonels, were named in a First Information Report for allegedly barging into a police station, beating up and kidnapping policemen in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Wednesday night. 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. 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.