‘SIT constituted, dispute over land, cash suspected reason’
Jammu Tawi, Nov 5: Jammu, the winter capital got rattled with a major
shootout incident that took place in Arnia area of RS Pura subdivision
in which two persons got killed while two got seriously injured on
Friday.
Officials told that the incident took place on Friday morning after
which police have taken up investigation of the case and a special
investigation team has also been constituted.
Officials said that incident took place on Friday morning when four
men travelling in a Scorpio and two travelling in Thar car entered
into heated arguments after which shootout took place.
“Four men were allegedly fired upon by two others in which all four
received injuries and two of them died on spot,” said officials.
They further added that two injured have been shifted to the local
hospital where they are under treatment.
Deceased have been identified as Sabar Chowdhary and Arif Chowdhary
while two injured are identified as Babar Chowdhary and Parveen Kumar.
Injured Babar is elder brother of deceased Sabar Chowdhary.
Officials of police further said that the deceased got killed in
firing with an assault rifle which was the service weapon of one of
the alleged accused among two who are police personnel.
“The alleged accused are police personnel of the Reserve battalion of
police and one of the alleged accused was carrying his service
weapon,” said police officials.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jammu Chandan Kohli said that a
special investigation team has been constituted into the matter which
will be headed by SP HQ Jammu, Ramnish Gupta.
He added that prima facie it seems that dispute over land and cash is
the reason behind the incident.
