Bathinda navy station in Punjab the place a firing incident passed off on April 12. Four individuals had been killed within the incident, the Indian Army stated. (Image: PTI)
Police issued a discover to 12 jawans to seem for questioning however solely 4 turned up. They stated there have been no clues on the id of the assailants and claimed that the military has not been forthcoming with “clear” particulars
Mystery continues to shroud the killings of 4 troopers on the Bathinda navy station, at the same time as police questioned 4 military personnel on Sunday after they issued a discover to no less than a dozen of them to seem earlier than them.
On April 12, 4 jawans of the 80 Medium Regiment had been killed as two unidentified assailants fired at them with a stolen rifle. The Indian Army and police dominated out the fear angle within the case however even after 4 days, they haven’t been in a position to determine the accused. A head depend on the station after the incident had established that nobody was lacking from the navy station, indicating the involvement of outsiders.
The police have claimed that the military authorities haven’t been forthcoming with “clear” particulars of the incident, following which the notices had been issued to 12 jawans from the navy station to seem for questioning. Later, solely 4 turned up earlier than the police.
Bathinda senior superintendent of police Gulneet Singh Khurana stated the position and statements of some jawans within the case appeared suspicious, as a consequence of which they had been summoned for questioning. He added that police and military had been trying into totally different elements of the incident.
“It seems, as of now, very improbable that unknown intruders may have entered. CCTV footage, so far, from outside indicates no suspicious entry of outsiders. But we are investigating the case from every angle,” a police officer stated.
Though the military, too, is finishing up a separate probe into the incident, it has not shared with police any concrete data on the accused or what truly transpired on that day besides the FIR filed within the case.
“We need to thoroughly examine the role of some army personnel, which could give us clarity on what actually happened,” an officer stated. The joint search operation by the police and military has not yielded a lot in phrases of monitoring down the perpetrators. Sources stated the assertion of some of the jawans gave the impression to be obscure and uncertain.
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The jawans had been killed of their sleep within the firing, which passed off of their barracks early on April 12. The subsequent day, the military reported the dying of one other soldier who succumbed to a gunshot wound on the identical base however stated it was not linked to the preliminary case. Officials recommended it could possibly be a case of suicide or unintended firing.
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