Jammu: A Border Security Force jawan, deployed along the Line of Control, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in bordering Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources here today said.
“Jawan, identified as Constable Anand Rao of 79 Battalion was deployed at Begum Post along LoC at Mendhar in Poonch district, this morning shot himself with his service rifle and ended his life,” the sources told.
They said that on hearing the gun shot, his colleagues rushed to the spot and shifted the profusely bleeding trooper to the nearby hospital but he was declared as brought dead.
A case has been registered and investigations were in progress, police said.