At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in a horrific shooting incident at Charles University in Czech Republic capital Prague on 21st December. Czech police said that the shooter was also shot dead, while around 30 persons were injured.
Police said that the shooting took place at a school in Jan Palach Square, and police forces were deployed in the area. The philosophical faculty of Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design are located in that location.
BREAKING: Shooting with multiple fatalities at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in Prague pic.twitter.com/Rs0u9RHsXi
Police said that the spot has been sealed, and urged people to leave the nearby areas and stay indoors. Several police officers were also injured in the gunfight with the shooter before the attacker allegedly killed himself. The shooter has been named David Kozak by local media.
24 years old David Kozak was a student at the philosophy faculty of Charles University.
BREAKING:
Reports of many killed in a mass-shooting at the Charles University of Prague, Czechia.
The pictures below show the shooter of the roof of the building and students trying to hide from him on a ledge high up in the air. pic.twitter.com/9K0ibvudGP
Posting on X, Czech police said that shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) it was responding to a school shooting at Prague’s Jan Palach Square, before reporting the shooter was “eliminated”.
The police posted several follow-up tweets, and said in one tweet: “The shooter has been eliminated !!! The entire building is currently being evacuated and there are several dead and dozens of injured.”
Střelec byl eliminován !!! Celá budova je v současné chvíli evakuována a na místě je několik mrtvých a desítky raněných.
The police said that the entire building was being evacuated, and there were several deaths and tens of injuries, without giving numbers.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said, “According to preliminary information, the shooter himself should be dead, there are dead and wounded on site, I will not speculate now about the final number.”
Prime Minister Petr Fiala cancelled his trip to the east of the country and was returning to Prague, he said on X. “Due to the tragic events at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague, I have cancelled the work program in Olomouc and am going back to Prague,” he tweeted.
Although owning firearms in Czech Republic is relatively easier compared to other EU countries, gun crime is relatively rare in the country.
Three momentous Bills to replace the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act were passed by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Home Minister Amit Shah replied to the debate on the three bills and said that the three new criminal justice laws have drawn from India’s own legal jurisprudence and with their implementation, the country will have vast contributions of technology in its criminal justice system.
Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on bills that seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and Indian Evidence Act, Amit Shah said the implementation of new criminal laws will ensure an end to ‘tareekh pe tareekh’ era and justice will be given in three years.
The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita 2023; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita 2023; and Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill 2023 seek to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act respectively.
The House earlier took up discussion on the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill, 2023. The three bills were passed by Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Amit Shah said in his reply that for the first time, changes have been made in the three laws governing the nearly 150-year-old criminal justice system.
He said that after the three new laws are implemented, India’s criminal justice system will take maximum advantage of technology.
“If there will be maximum contribution of technology in any system, it will be in the Indian system…The aim of the three bills is not provide punishment but give justice,” he said
He said that in old laws, instead of crimes against women, priority was given to the protection of the Treasury and the British Crown.
Shah said the government has removed the section of sedition and replaced sedition with treason.
The debate on the key bills did not see participation from most opposition parties, as 46 of their members have been suspended from the House for the remainder of winter session for “misconduct”.
The amended bills to replace Indian Penal Code of 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) of 1973 and Indian Evidence Act, of 1872 were introduced in Lok Sabha by the Home Minister last week.
(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)
Minister of Women, Child Development and Minority Affairs Smriti Z Irani revealed that her father ceased actively participating in politics following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. She said this in a recent podcast with ANI Editor-in-Chief Smita Prakash. According to the Bharatiya Janata Party leader, her father left active politics after the tragic incident. “I saw him crying. A man who belonged to a different generation politically and ideologically expressed ‘I want to meet the Prime Minister once’ after which he met Prime Minister Modi.”
She added, “He acknowledged India’s rising status in the international arena. It feels like the end of a life cycle and everything has changed completely when my 74-year-old father told me that he had to thank PM Modi once.” Furthermore, Irani addressed Goa’s Silly Souls Cafe controversy which was related to her daughter Zoish Irani and called it wrong and unfair. “My 18-year-old daughter was dragged into it. Sometimes I cause a great deal of suffering for my children.”
Last year, Congress leaders demanded that the prime minister remove her from the cabinet accusing Zoish Irani of operating an illicit bar in Goa. Denouncing the charges Smriti Irani slammed Congress leaders and demanded that they show her daughter’s name on the show cause notice they had displayed during a press conference.
Smriti Irani mentioned in the interview that the arithmetic examination was quite difficult while her son Zohr Irani was in the tenth grade. Other students made fun of him and taunted that his mother might have set the paper because she was the Minister of Human Resource Development at the time. Notably, she has been a significant part of the Modi government’s cabinet since the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won in 2014. She serves as a Lok Sabha MP from Amethi where she defeated Rahul Gandhi of the Congress.
Recently, the parliamentarian and her father Ajay Kumar Malhotra had a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She remarked that it is similar to a parent-teacher conference while sharing a photo of the same and humorously wrote, “When the boss meets the father and you pray they don’t exchange complaints about you.”
Smriti Irani divulged that her father had mentioned that PM Modi is doing an excellent job and that India’s standing in the world has improved greatly. He then voiced the desire to convey his gratitude to the prime minister in person.
The protesting wrestlers led by Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia, and Vinesh Phogat faced a massive setback after former Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Anita Sheoran lost the election for the post of the president of the Wrestling Federations of India (WFI). Sheoran, who was supported by the protesting wrestlers, was defeated by Sanjay Singh, who is close to former president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Unhappy with the results of the election, Sakshi Malik has announced that she is retiring from the sport because Sanjay Singh is allegedly a business partner of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. She said in a press conference, “If somebody like Sanjay Singh, who is a business partner and friend of Brij Bhushan Singh is elected as the new president, I am quitting wrestling.”
As Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is a BJP MP, left-liberals are already attacking the BJP over Sanjay Singh becoming the new WFI president. However, ‘fact-checker’ and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair went ahead, claiming that Sanjay Singh was appointed to the sports body by BJP, and he was not elected.
Quoting an ANI tweet showing Sakshi Malik breaking while exiting the press conference, Md Zubair tweeted, “Tweet like BJP: 60+ crore Indian Women insulted by BJP by appointing Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s close Aid as the new president of Wrestling Federation of India.”
While he was trying to take on BJP’s claim that the opposition insulted the Jat community by doing a mimicry on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, he resorted to using false claims in the tweet. Zubair claimed that the BJP appointed Sharan Singh as the new president of Wrestling Federation of India. He said that Sanjay Singh is a close aide of former WFI chief and sexual harassment accused Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, trying to imply that it should disqualify him from the post.
It is obvious that BJP or any political party, or even the government, can’t appoint the WFI president, or any head of any sporting federation in the country. Any interference in running sporting bodies, including the selection of officials, results in the suspension of such a body by the parent global body. In fact, WFI is already suspended by United World Wrestling for not holding the elections on time, and now that suspension is expected to be lifted.
Sanjay Singh has been elected as the new WFI president, he was not ‘appointed’ to the post as alleged by Islamist propagandist Zubair. The election is held as per Model Election Guidelines of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sport. The details of how elections are conducted as mentioned in the WFI constitution.
As per Article IV of the constitution, All State Wrestling Associations and Union Territory Wrestling Associations are entitled to send 2 Representatives to the General Council. Each Representative have one vote.
Accordingly, the elections for 15 posts of the WFI including the president were held in Delhi on 21st December. Besides president, elections were held for the posts of a senior vice-president, four vice-presidents, a secretary general, a treasurer, two joint secretaries and five executive members.
Out of a total of 47 votes, Sanjay Singh got 40 votes, while Anita Sheoran received only 7 votes. Reportedly, candidates in Brish Bhushan’s camp won 13 out of the 15 positions.
Therefore, it can’t be even claimed that federations in BJP-ruled states voted for Singh, because there are more than 7 states where non-BJP parties are in power. This clearly shows that a majority of the members voted for Singh, while the support for Sheoran, supported by protesting wrestlers, is very low.
However, these facts do not bother ‘fact-checker’ Zubair to claim that Sanjay Singh has been appointed as WFI president by the BJP.
The election of a new president means that the suspension of WFI by the global wrestling body United World Wrestling will be lifted. UWW had suspended WFI for failing to hold elections before the August deadline, and Indians wrestlers have been competing as neutral athletes at international events after that. WFI elections were originally scheduled for July, before the deadline, but it was deferred multiple times due to court cases.
Maharashtra Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Thursday lodged a complaint at Kalachowki police station in Mumbai and demanded the registration of an FIR against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee over the mimicry row of Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.
In a post on X, Maharashtra Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha said, “We lodged a police complaint against Trinamool Congress MPs Kalyan Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi for their disrespectful remarks against the esteemed Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. In a firm stand against this incident, we also orchestrated a protest march from Bharatmata Cinema to Lalbagh Police Station.”
The controversy erupted after suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, during the protest with other suspended MPs at Parliament’s Makar Dwar, was seen mimicking Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was seen filming the Trinamool MP using his phone.
In his first remarks on the ongoing mimicry controversy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the media is entirely focused on showing the mimicry incident and not highlighting the pain and agony of the suspended MPs, adding that What can be done if the “media is totally running on one line”.
“MPs were sitting there, I shot their video. My video is on my phone. The media is showing it. Nobody has said anything.150 of our MPs have been thrown out (of the House) but there is no discussion on that in the media. There is no discussion on Adani, no discussion on Rafale, no discussion on unemployment,” Rahul Gandhi said.
“Our MPs are disheartened and sitting outside. Please show their side also. What can we do if you are totally running on one line,” he added.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialled Jagdeep Dhankhar to express his anguish over the theatrics of a member in the ‘sacred’ Parliament complex.
BJP is also staging protests in parts of the country over the ongoing controversy.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Thursday staged a protest at Jantar Mantar against the opposition MPs and demanded an apology from them.
During the protest, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari came down heavily on the opposition over the insult to the Vice President of India. “This was an insult to farmers, his (Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar) community, and those sitting in constitutional posts. Rahul Gandhi, Congress, and their alliance will have to bear its brunt,” Tiwari said.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party held a protest in Bhopal against the opposition MPs and demanded an apology from them over the mimicry row.
In continuance of the unending atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan, yet another underage Hindu girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Sindh province. The victim identified as Indra Deewan, the daughter of Gyan Mal, was abducted by an Islamist named Sajid Hussain.
Sajid kidnapped her from her hometown in Tando Jam in Sindh’s Hyderabad. Subsequently, he converted her to Islam and gave her a new name, Naimat. Sajid Hussian married her after her conversion, using a forged affidavit to claim that the minor girl converted of her own free will. He manipulated her age in the affidavit to prove that she was not underage.
According to the affidavit posted on X by a Pakistani Christian named Faraz Pervaiz, Indra’s age is stated as 19 years in the forged affidavit dated December 15, 2023. However, the victim’s real age is confirmed as 16 in her school certificates presented by her parents. The Hindu girl’s date of birth as per the school certificates is June 2nd, 2007.
As can be read in the forged affidavit, it is claimed that the victim confirmed that she is a “virgin” Muslim lady aged about 19 years “having full Mature understand and Know the Rights and wrong of Life in it totality.”
The affidavit further mentions that the victim’s parents wanted to marry their daughter off to some other person, however, she refused the comply and was adamant about marrying the accused Sajid Hussain. It adds that Indra now Naimat confirms that she was not kidnapped by anyone and that she made her choice out of free will without any coercion, fraud, duress and harassment.
Following the victim’s conversion to Islam and Nikah, her abductor Sajid filed a counter-FIR against her parents struggling to retrieve their daughter. Sajid claimed that the girl’s parents threatened to murder him and Naimat (Indra). Sajid claimed that the victim’s family were opposed to Indra’s conversion to Islam and Nikah and were threatening them to dissolve the marriage and send the girl back to her family otherwise they implicate him in false cases using their power and money.
Knowing that power is the last thing the persecuted Hindus have in Pakistan, the veracity of these claims made by the abductor is questionable.
Kidnappings and forced conversions of Hindu girls to Islam in Sindh have become a matter of grave concern for Pakistani Hindus. There has been an upsurge in such cases in Sindh in recent months, with lower courts overwhelmed with applications from afflicted parents demanding justice and the return of their abducted children.
Not a day goes by in Pakistan when in some parts of the country a Hindu girl or those belonging to other religious minorities including Sikhs are not abducted and converted. It is also common for a Pakistani court to hand over the converted victim to her abductor instead of delivering justice and protecting the right to practice her original faith and her dignity. OpIndia has documented countless such cases wherein Hindu girls have been abducted and forcibly converted in Pakistan.
On 16h December, a class two student died of a panic epileptic attack after stray dogs attacked her when she was playing in a park in Chandigarh’s Manimajra now renamed Sector 13. The deceased child was identified as Jasmeet.
As per reports, the kid usually used to play at the park after returning from school. On the fateful day too, she was playing at the park when a few stray dogs clung to her feet while fighting with each other. The little child got scared to the point that she suffered a panic epileptic attack.
The bystanders quickly saved her from the dogs and checked her pulse but they could not feel it. She was rushed to the hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
Following the incident, when News18 went to talk to the family of the deceased child, the neighbours came and showed the injuries they sustained during dog attacks.
The residents alleged that despite their repeated complaints to the administration about the threat posed by the stray dogs in their neighbourhood, nothing was done to stop them. The residents said they had been living in fear and stopped going out during the night. Children have stopped playing in the park, they added.
Jasmeet was a student of class two in Vatika Public School located in Sector 19, Chandigarh.
Mother-daughter suffered accident as dogs chased them
Another similar incident from Chandigarh’s Sector 38 came to light when the mother and daughter met an accident while trying to escape the chasing dogs.
A mother and her daughter met with an accident when stray dogs attacked them; they rammed the scooty into a house. Visuals from Sector 38, Chandigarh. #Chandigarhpic.twitter.com/3BPvUhjPpW
Journalist Gagandeep Singh shared a CCTV video of the incident on X. The mother and daughter were riding a scooter when the stray dogs began chasing them. While trying to escape, they slammed into a parking of a house, fell off the scooter and injured themselves.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi told the Delhi High Court that he will delete a social media post where he had revealed the identity of a 9-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered. He agreed to delete a 2021 tweet, where he had posted a photograph of the victim, identifying her which is a crime under Indian laws.
The Congress leader made the undertaking after the court indicated it might order the removal of the post to protect the victim’s identity. Rahul Gandhi’s lawyers told a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna that he was willing to take the tweet down.
Accepting the undertaking, the court agreed to not pass any order. Acting Chief Justice Manmohan said, “We don’t want to pass a judicial order for this, so please delete the tweet and protect the identity of the girl. We are concerned about that.”
In a surprising turn of events, the Delhi Police gave a completely different version of the case during the same hearing, saying that there was no scientific evidence that the victim girl was raped or murdered. The police stated that the girl died of electrocution.
Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing the petitioner against Gandhi, said that at the time of the tweet by Rahul Gandhi, it was considered a rape case, and if the police are giving a different version, it should file a closure report. He demanded that action against Rahul Gandhi should still be taken because he had disclosed the identity of the victim when it was considered a rape and murder case, which is a crime under POCSO.
Advocate Santosh Kumar Tripathi, representing the police, stated that a detailed status report would be filed in a sealed cover.
The Delhi Police counsel stated, “My report is already on record. Details of the investigation are mentioned. If anything further is required, I will file a sealed cover report. The purpose of the Delhi Police is not to scandalise anyone.”
The court directed the Delhi Police counsel to file a sealed cover status report on the investigation within four weeks. The next date of the hearing has been fixed on 24th January 2024.
It is notable that earlier the Congress party had claimed that the victim’s mother had permitted Rahul Gandhi reveal her daughter’s identity by posting her photograph. But the mother had denied this claim. She had clarified that she didn’t sign any consent later, and only talked to Rahul Gandhi when he visited the family.
Rahul Gandhi’s X (then Twitter) was locked for some time after he had posted the image, which is a crime under POCSO and Juvenile Justice Act. The concerned tweet was also withheld in India by Twitter, in response to a notice by NCPCR. However, later Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account was restored.
Islamists and the left-liberal cabal have begun attacking the Uttar Pradesh Police after it attempted to disperse and control the Muslim mob including women who launched an attack on Hindus and the police on Tuesday (19th December) in the Moradabad region. As reported earlier, the mob of Muslims clashed with Hindu devotees over the construction of a temple’s boundary wall in the region. The Muslims including women are said to have pelted stones at the police and abused them as well as the Hindu locals while registering a protest against the legal construction of the temple wall.
The Police as a result resorted to maintaining peace and attempted to disperse the Muslim crowd who could be seen creating chaos at the temple construction site. The videos of the incident went viral over the internet. However, the incident is being falsely portrayed by Islamists saying that the Muslim women were ‘beaten’ by the Police in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
“Why UP police is lathi charging women with other Anti Social Elements? Instead of taking action against those ‘goondas’, Men in the khaki hand-in-glove beating,” said one of the users as he shared the video of UP Police dispersing the crowd.
One of the Quint Journalists also shared the video and indicated that the police were ‘assaulting’ and ‘beating’ the locals from another community who allegedly objected to construction at a religious shrine of another community. “The group also resorted to stone pelting as the initial argument over construction soon swelled into a full-scale brawl,” he added.
Warning: Disturbing visuals
In UP’s Moradabad, policemen assault, open lathicharge on locals from a community who allegedly objected to construction at a religious shrine of different community in Mudhapande area in the district. The group also resorted to stone pelting as the… pic.twitter.com/IqRYN7vtTz
Also one of the netizens named Khan Saba said that Muslim women in Mundapanday town of Moradabad, UP were lathi-charged by Police and ‘anti-social-elements’. The video was circulated by many such Islamists who abused the Uttar Pradesh Police and Hindus for attempting to resort to peace.
⚠️Abusive language #Moradabad,UP: Police along with anti social elements lathi charged Muslim women in Mundapanday town of Moradabad UP. pic.twitter.com/p6Qj12cQZK
Islamists accused Hindus were undertaking construction at the temple site ‘illegally’
The Islamists further also mentioned in their posts on X that the Hindus were illegally constructing the temple in the Muslim locality and so the Muslims were protesting against the Hindus and demanding removal of construction. According to the Islamists, the police instead of guarding the interests of the minority community, allegedly joined hands with Hindus to attack and target the Muslim women.
“Muslims were protesting against the mobs that were illegally constructing a temple in a Muslim dominated while asking for the land documents from the mobs police intervened and started beating Muslim women and youths. According to the aggrieved parties, the police took unilateral action against the Muslim community. Whereas the documents of the temple land are not even being shown and construction is being done forcibly,” one of the netizens opined on X sharing the video of the incident.
Horrible scene of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Muslims were protesting against the mobs that were illegally constructing a temple in a Muslim dominated while asking for the land documents from the mobs police intervened and started beating Muslim women’s and youths .
Notably, it has come to the fore that the Muslims had first launched an attack on the Police and intended to attack the Hindus who were constructing the wall of the Chamunda Mata Temple on private land in the Mundapanday town of Moradabad, UP. The Muslims protested against the construction and opposed the construction calling it ‘illegal’. The police happened to take cognizance of the event and confirm that the Hindus were undertaking construction legally on private land and that there was no need for the protests. However, the Muslim community people including women raised their voices against the temple wall and pelted stones at the police and the local Hindus.
OpIndia obtained the FIR copy of the incident in which it has been clearly mentioned that a few people from the Muslim community including women pelted stones at the Police, abused the officers, and also created chaos in the area. They interfered in government duty and attacked the state administrative officials as a result of which the police had to disperse the crowd and take appropriate action in self-defence.
Muslims were undertaking illegal construction on government land which was initially opposed by the Police, FIR confirms
Further, while the Islamists and the left-liberal cabal side with the Muslims claiming that the Hindus were undertaking ‘illegal’ construction at the Chamunda Mata Temple, the FIR clearly mentions that the people from the Muslim community had encroached on government land in the town to construct the illegal structure at the location.
The said government land is just 50 meters away from the temple. As per the FIR, the Hindus had earlier complained about the illegal construction undertaken by the Muslims on a burial ground which is looked after by the state government. Later the Police informed them about the illegal construction by Muslims on the government land following with the community members were asked to stop the illegal construction.
The community members including the accused named Abdullah and Zubainissha however refused to cooperate with the Police and asked the community members to continue with the illegal construction on the government land. They argued that the construction undertaken by the Hindus at the Chamunda Mata Temple was illegal and that it should be stopped. However, the Police confirmed that the construction undertaken by the Hindus was legal and that it was on their private land. The Police also informed the Muslim community that the location where they (Muslims) were constructing an illegal structure, belonged to the government.
Muslim mob pelting stones at Police in Moradabad
“On 19th December at around 12:30 pm, the accused including women gathered in the town and began defending the illegal construction on the government land by Muslims. They also raised their voices against the temple wall construction. The police appealed to keep the peace but the 19 accused persons including women attacked the police with stones and abused the officers. The police then dispersed the crowd and arrested 5 persons on the spot. The action by the Police was in self-defense. 14 other persons including women have been booked in the case.
The list of accused booked in the case who pelted stones at police includes a woman named Zaibunnisha and others
The 19 accused persons booked by the Police include a woman named Zaibunnisha who calls herself a ‘lawyer’ and had asked the Muslims to continue with the illegal construction even after the Police warnings. She meanwhile also acknowledged the existence of the temple but contended that the Hindu side was currently expanding it. However, the Police confirmed to OpIndia that the Hindus were undertaking construction on their own land and that it was completely legal. “Some people from the other community protested. But they were booked by the police and 5 among them have been arrested. Probe underway,” Additional SP of Moradabad Police said while talking to OpIndia.
The 19 persons named in the FIR by the Moradabad Police are Abdullah, Rahis, Israr, Fahim, Tausib, Zabunnisha (woman), Navish, Mujjamil, Navej, Kamil, Masoo Ali, Iliyaas, Ravik, Rihan, Karrar, Javed Najakat, Nadir, Jabir and 15-20 other unidentified persons. The said mob included women who pelted stones at the Police. One of the educated, ‘so-called’ lawyer women, Zaibunnisha has also been named in the FIR.
Zabunnisha has been named as accused in the FIR
Among these 5 namely, Abdullah, Rahis, Israr, Fahim, and Tausib have been arrested by the Police. The accused persons have been booked under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting using a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 332 (voluntarily causing harm in order to deter a public worker from doing his duties), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Section 7 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1932 has also been imposed upon the accused. The FIR has been filed based on a complaint filed by one of the police personnel named Surendra Singh. Further investigations are underway.
An Army vehicle has been ambushed by terrorists in the Dehra Ki Gali (DKG) forest area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. The attack took place today (December 21, Thursday) in the Surankote area of the district.
#BREAKING: Indian Army truck has been ambushed by Pakistan sponsored terrorists in Poonch of Jammu & Kashmir, casualties are feared. Indian Army Counter Terror Ops were also underway near the terror attack location at DKG-Buffliaz Road. More details are awaited from the location.
The attack resulted in the Indian Army retaliating with heavy firing, which reportedly is still ongoing in the vicinity. According to News 18, one terrorist has been injured in the gunfiring that is underway.
#BreakingNews: Terrorist attack on an Indian Army vehicle in Bufliaz, Poonch. Gunfire reported with one terrorist injured
According to reports, reinforcements have been sent to the area where the ambush happened. The Army has cordoned off the area following the attack.
Casualties are feared even if there isn’t news of any as of yet. More details are awaited.
Notably, this is the second terror attack on the army in the region in less than a month.
This region has become a centre for terrorist activity in recent years, and the army has been the target of multiple high-profile strikes. But from 2003 until 2021, this area has been relatively free of terrorist attacks. Last month, five soldiers including two Captains were killed in action after the army and its special forces launched an anti-terror operation in Rajouri’s Kalakote. In twin attacks in the Rajouri-Poonch area in April and May of this year, ten soldiers lost their lives in combat.
