The concerned SHO told FreePressKashmir, “we can’t divulge any details right now but we are going to hold a press conference shortly.”
Srinagar: Six policemen, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, were injured after army men thrashed them, and ransacked the police station, for allegedly stopping their vehicle at a check-post in Gund area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district late Friday night.
The concerned SHO told FreePressKashmir, “we can’t divulge any details right now but we are going to hold a press conference shortly.”
The incident took place late last evening after policemen tried to stop soldiers in civvies who were returning from Amarnath yatra.
A police official said that some private vehicles carrying army personnel of 24 RR in civvies were stopped at a routine ‘naka’ in Gund late night.
“The army men got down from the vehicles and roughed up the policemen on duty,” he said.
Reports said that the policemen were saved by the locals.
Later, they said, army men from other adjoining camps reached the police station Gund and roughed up other policemen present there and also ransacked the police station.
The injured policemen were hospitalized after the thrashing.
SSP Ganderbal Fayaz Ahmed Lone said that the incident occurred after army soldiers in civvies were not allowed to move ahead during night hours, and that they have taken up the matter with the army higher ups who have ordered an inquiry into the incident.
“Army soldiers came and ransacked the police station. Some of the policemen are injured,” Fayaz said.
He, however, added that army has initiated an inquiry into the incident.
Meanwhile, police have registered a case against the group of army personnel for vandalizing the Gund police station.
