Bodies of the two Special Police Officers (SPOs), who had gone missing during a patrol in the remote Dachhan-Marwah area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, have been recovered from Dherna post.
A joint search operation was launched by police and security forces in the area to look for them.
The bodies were recovered by the search party that had been looking for them for the last several hours, ever since the missing message was flashed. One of them had a bullet wound on his head, and the other on his back. It appears that terrorists, who had laid an ambush in the area, opened fire while the two were moving towards the Dherna post to relieve two of their colleagues on duty. It appears the terrorists took away their weapons after killing them. Ahmed, who was posted at the Pedil Police Post, had gone missing while heading home from duty along with his service-issued Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) and magazine. A police investigation later established that he had been murdered by relatives over an ongoing land dispute.
The INSAS and .303 rifles they were carrying are missing. The incident comes weeks after another SPO, 55-year-old Bashir Ahmed, was found dead near his residence in Wanipora Trigam in Kishtwar on October 16.
Both were on patrol duty along with the Army and were on their way to the Dherna post when they went missing, according to preliminary information.
