Overview
- BSF personnel opened fire late Sunday after a man who was spotted near the Majra outpost in Samba’s Ramgarh sector ignored repeated warnings to stop, officials said.
- Officials said the body was recovered on Monday and identified via a Pakistani ID card as Mohd Arif, 61, from Lahore, before being handed to local police.
- A fresh encounter continued in Kishtwar’s Singhpora forest, where Army and SOG teams reported two to three Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives trapped under a tight cordon supported by drones and sniffer dogs.
- The Kishtwar push follows earlier escapes on January 18 and 22 and the January 20 discovery of a hideout stocked with winter supplies and ammunition in the Chatroo belt.
- Regional security has been reinforced along the International Border, and police detained a man in Samba for questioning after Pakistani contact numbers were found on his phone.