16 Indian army personnel named in FIR for barging into police station, assaulting cops
Srinagar: Kupwara police have registered a case against Indian Army personnel for entering into a police station on Tuesday night and assaulting policemen, leaving four injured.
According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said Kupwara Police have invoked IPC sections relating to rioting, robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder against the soldiers.
The reports said that the Army personnel were angry over the detention of one of their members and also took away a Head Constable, Ghulam Rasool, with them.
It said the personnel who entered the Kupwara police station were led by an officer, adding that they also snatched the phones of the injured police personnel and Station House Officer Mohammad Ishaq.
After the intervention of senior officers, Head Constable Rasool was released in exchange for the detained soldier, the report added.
The injured policemen, identified as constables Saleem Mushtaq and Zahoor Ahmad and Special Police Officers Imtiyaz Ahmad Malik and Rayees Khan, were taken to the Soura Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar.
