On Wednesday, October 9, when the Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections were announced the Indian Army who always stands by the Country & its people lost one of its soldiers.
The police officials said that an Indian Army man who had been abducted by terrorists in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir was discovered dead with bullet wounds all over his body.
During a joint anti-terror operation between the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police on October 8, two soldiers from the 161 unit of the Territorial Army were abducted from the Anantnag forest. Nevertheless, despite having two gunshot wounds, one of them was able to get away.
According to authorities, the wounded soldier’s health is stable after he was taken to a hospital right away for the required care.
Later, the bullet-ridden body of the kidnapped soldier, Hilal Ahmad Bhat, was retrieved from Anantnag’s Pathribal woodland area on Wednesday. The event happened the day following the results of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
The Indian Army and Jammu & Kashmir have begun a huge operation to find the terrorists responsible for the event.
“Based on intelligence input, a joint counter-terrorist operation was launched by the Indian Army along with Jammu and Kashmir Police and other agencies in Kazwan Forest in Kokernag on October 8. The operation continued overnight as one soldier of the Territorial Army was reported missing,” Indian Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Core said in a post on X.
In an earlier August engagement in Anantnag, security forces and terrorists resulted in the deaths of two soldiers and the injuries of three others.
Previous to this, a confrontation with heavily armed militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district claimed the lives of four Army soldiers and a police officer. The ‘Kashmir Tigers,’ a front organization for the Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), claimed responsibility for the attack.