J&K civilian deaths outside Army camp: police set up special team to probe, says report

Following huge protests over the deaths of two persons outside an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, the police reportedly constituted a special investigation team (SIT) on 19 December 2022 to probe the incident.

Two civilians had died while another was injured in gunfire outside an Army camp in Rajouri on 16 December 2022. While the Indian Army had said that terrorists had opened fire at the camp, some witnesses claimed that a sentry at the gate had shot the civilians.

Police set up a special team headed by a gazette-rank police officer to find out what happened, as per sources quoted by news agency PTI.

The SIT will work under the supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Mohammad Aslam and will be headed by Deputy SP (headquarters), Rajouri, Chanchal Singh. Its members will be Inspector Danish Maqbool, Probationary Sub-Inspector (PSI) Jatinder Sharma and two head constables, the sources said.

The SIT has been asked to update day to day progress of investigation with the range police headquarters, they said.

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The team will investigate the incident of firing that took place at the Alfa gate of the Army camp in the Phalyana area of Rajouri town in which two local men Surinder Kumar and Kamal Kumar, both residents of ward 15 Phalyana, got killed, while Anil Kumar from Uttrakhand was injured and is under treatment in Government Medical College (GMC), Rajouri, the sources said.

(With PTI inputs)