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Policeman, wife, daughter shot dead in Pulwama

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Hariparigam Awantipura (Pulwama), JAMMU & KASHMIR :

Lieutenant Governor condemns the attack.

Suspected militants killed a policeman, his wife and daughter in Pulwama’s Awantipora area on Sunday night.

The police said militants barged into the house of Special Police Officer (SPO) Fayaz Ahmad at Hariparigam area of Awantipora and opened indiscriminate fire on Sunday night.

“In the firing, Ahmad along with his wife, Raja Bano, and daughter, Rafia Jan, received bullet wounds. Later, the couple succumbed to their injuries in the hospital,” the police said.

Jan, 24, also succumbed to her injuries on Monday morning in a Srinagar hospital.

Earlier this month, militants killed two off-duty policemen in Srinagar in two separate attacks, including an inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department.

“I strongly condemn brutal terrorist attack on SPO Ahmad and his family at Awantipora. This is an act of cowardice and perpetrators of violence will be brought to justice very soon,” Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Other States / by Special Correspondent / Srinagar – June 28th, 2021

Police Officer slain in Handwara gunfight laid to rest

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JAMMU & KASHMIR :

Srinagar (KNS):

A 42-year-old JKP slain police Sub-Inspecter Qazi Sageer Ahmad Pathan on late Sunday evening was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Tadd village of Karnah north Kashmir’s Kupwara district amid sobs ad tears. 

According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), a pall of gloom desended on Tadd village of Karnah when body of slain police officer reached his ancestral place where hundreds of mourners attended his funeral prayers before he was laid to rest. His  premonition of death left tadd villagers awash with tears. His two minor siblings six-year-old Insha and Eight-year-old Towfeeq watched bewildered, what happned.

 Inconsolable his wife Rasheeda Begum and aged parents wailed and were beating their chests, trying to come to terms with the devastating loss. Slain police officer was appointed as constable in 1999 in Armed wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police, later on he volunteered himself for working with Police Special Operational Group (SOG), an elite counter insurgency force from 2006. 

As per official sources, the slain police officer was honored with various medals which include Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for gallantry in 2009, Police medal for gallantry by President of India in 2011, DGP Jammu and Kashmir Commendation Medal and GOC-in-C, Northern Command commendation Disc. 

Notably slain police officer was among five forces personnel who got killed in a night-long gun battle that broke out in Chanjmulla hamlet of Handwara town. Two militants including top Jaish commander Haider, a foriegner, were also killed in exchange of fire. (KNS)

source: http://www.knskashmir.com / Kashmir News Service / by Zubair Ahmad / May 04th, 2020

Proud that my son fought like a lion for his country: Sher Mohammad’s mother

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Meerut , UTTAR PRADESH :

Meerut:

When Fareeda Bibi  heard that her son Sher Mohammad — a CRPF constable+ who was part of the battalion that was ambushed in Sukma — had been taken to a Raipur hospital with five bullet wounds, her heart sank.

It was much later that someone in her village of Aasifabad Chanpura in Bulandshahr, UP, told her that her son had taken down at least three Maoists even as he collapsed in unbearable agony. That’s when she smiled a bit. “I am proud that my son fought like a lion for his country,” the 65-year-old said. “He is keeping alive a tradition that our family is known for.”

Sher’s father Noor Mohammad served in the Indian Army and retired with honour. His uncle Abdul Salam was also in the Army and retired 10 years ago.
“When Sher’s son Sohail, 2, grows up, I will ensure he, too, devotes his life to protect this country,” she said.

Though TOI could not independently verify details about Sher’s encounter with Maoists, the jawan told a TV channel from his hospital bed in Raipur that the 74th Battalion of the CRPF was overseeing construction of a road when about 300 Naxals ambushed them with AK-47 rifles+ .

“The 99 CRPF soldiers fought hard. We retaliated, gave them a fitting response. We were able to gun down at least 11 to 12 Naxals. I myself shot down two-three,” Sher has been quoted as saying. He was caught by machine gun fire in the waist and knee.

Sitting on a charpoy in her modest house, Fareeda said the whole village is praying for her son’s recovery.

“We know what it means to join the Army or CRPF,” she said. “There is risk, of course. But patriotism flows in our veins.”

Waris Ali, Sher’s eldest brother, was the first one to receive news of the attack through an acquaintance who saw the report on TV.

Waris told TOI: “As soon as we heard about the incident, we called up CRPF authorities in Raipur. They said Sher was being cared for, so there was no need to rush (to Raipur). I drove down this morning from Delhi, where I work, to be with my mother.”

A large number of villagers have gathered around Fareeda and Waris, consoling them and praying with them. One of them, Aqleem Ali said, “We are a big family. A large number of our relatives are in the armed forces. Sher has done something every fauji would do under such circumstances. He will come back.”

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Meerut News / by Sandeep Rai / TNN / April 26th, 2017