Srinagar: A senior police officer was killed and three soldiers injured in an encounter between
terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Three terrorists were
killed in the ongoing joint operation by the army, the CRPF and the police.
The security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Turigam area of south
Kashmir’s Kulgam, 68 km from Srinagar, following information about the presence of
terrorists in the area, a police official said. He added that the terrorists opened fire on the
security forces, who retaliated, triggering the encounter.
Among the army soldiers injured is a Major.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar Thakur, who was killed in the encounter, was
leading the police team from the front in the encounter with the terrorists. The 2011-batch
officer from the Jammu and Kashmir Police Services was posted in Kulgam for the last two
years.
Kulgam is 47 km from Pulwama district where over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
soldiers laid down their lives in a terror attack on Febraury 14. Pakistan-based Jaish-e-
Mohammed has claimed responsibility for it.
The centre sent around 10,000 soldiers of various paramilitary forces to Jammu and Kashmir
over the weekend amid amid a major crackdown on separatists in the state.
There has been a considerable build-up of security forces across Jammu and Kashmir after
the terror attack in Pulwama.
Since then, the situation has been tense across the state, especially the Kashmir Valley. Earlier
this week, three Jaish terrorists – one believed to be a conspirator in last week’s terror attack
and another, a local Kashmiri bomb specialist – were killed in a military operation in Pulwama.
Four soldiers and a police constable were also killed in the encounter.
