Cop succumbs, ‘infiltrator’ killed

Srinagar: Army has claimed to have foiled an infiltration bid by killing an unidentified militant in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district while a police inspector lost eight day long battle for life at a hospital here on Wednesday.    A defence ministry spokesman based here said that an infiltration bid was foiled by troops of 19 Rajput on the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran Sector in the frontier district. The incident occurred on intervening night of July 4 and 5. “A militant who was trying to sneak inside with huge quantity of explosives was killed when he was trying to infiltrate on this side of the LoC,” the spokesman said.An AK-47 Rifle, a pistol, two rocket launchers, 54 UBGL grenade, 41 hand grenade, 105 rounds of Sniper ammunition and 10 kgs of explosives were recovered from the possession of the slain militant, the spokesman told. Meanwhile, an inspector in Telecommunication wing of police, Shabir Ahmad Bhat (No. 4714/NGO), who was injured in a militant attack near his residence at Bemina in outskirts of here on June 29 last, succumbed to his injuries at SMHS.    48- year old, Shabir had joined the Police services in the year 1982 and is survived by wife and two kids, officials told this agency.The cop was accorded guard of honor at District Police lines-Srinagar here. Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, Additional Director General of Police, Armed/Law & Order, K. Rajindra Kumar, Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone, S.M. Sahai, Inspector General of Police Railways, J&K, Farooq Ahmad, Inspector General of Police Armed/IR-Kashmir, Raouf-ul-Hassan and others joined the Guard of honor, followed by wreath laying ceremony in the memory of the Inspector.