New Delhi: Military and police on Thursday paid tributes to Captain Deepak Singh who was killed in an encounter with terrorists in close by Udhampur district, officers mentioned.
A search operation to trace down the terrorists who fled the positioning of encounter is underway in Assar belt of Doda district.
A wreath-laying ceremony was held in Jammu wherein Common-officer-Commanding (GoC) White Knight Corps Lieutenant Common Navin Sachdeva, Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar, Extra Director Common of Police Anand Jain laid wreaths and paid tributes to Singh on the IAF station right here.
A number of officers of civil administration, military, police and paramilitary forces additionally paid tributes of the captain.
On Wednesday, Captain Deepak Singh and one terrorist have been killed in an encounter in Assar space of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Wednesday. One civilian was additionally injured within the encounter.
Singh was critically injured within the operation and shifted to a army hospital the place he breathed his final.
Searches for the terrorists is happening within the space because the safety forces expanded the world of operation within the hilly belt of Doda and Udhampur districts.
That is fourth encounter within the current days within the Udhampuri-Doda-Kishtwar area.
Safety forces engaged terrorists in two encounters on Sunday as nicely — within the distant forest areas of Nownatta in Kishtwar and the Basantgarh space of Udhampur.
Following these encounters, terrorists escaped into Doda hills.
On June 26, three terrorists, suspected to be affiliated with the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), have been killed in a gunfight on Gandoh space of Doda district.
