Jammu: The bullet-riddled bodies of two missing Special Police Officers (SPOs) were recovered from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district early Thursday, a day after they went missing from the remote Dachhan belt, officials said.
However, the service weapons of the slain personnel were not found, raising suspicions of a possible militant angle, the officials said.
The two men were identified as Babi Chand (57) and Rashpal Kumar (45). They were posted with the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the local police at Kiyar village in Dachhan and had gone missing on Wednesday while travelling from their camp to an Army post at Dharna-Marwah.
The SPOs, who were posted with the Special Operations Group (SOG), had gone missing yesterday after they were posted for rotation duty at Army Camp Dharna in the Marwah sector of Kishtwar.
However, they failed to report for duty at the post and had gone missing while travelling from their camp to an Army post at Dharna-Marwah.
The police, CRPF and army men had launched a massive search operation yesterday in the Dacchan forest area of Kishtwar to search for the two missing SPOs.
The search operation continued throughout the day but there were no signs of the two missing SPOs.
Sources said the mobile phones of missing SPOs were initially reachable but remained switched off later.
The recovery of bullet riddled bodies of two missing SPOs have come a day after militants attacked a CRPF naka in Kulgam district in south Kashmir, injuring three paramilitary personnel.
The security forces have launched a massive manhunt for the two attackers involved in the attack, which is the third militant attack in south Kashmir in the last five months.
