Both the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF), the two largest paramilitary forces in the country, have claimed credit for gunning down an alleged Pakistani militant yesterday. Noman was shot dead while another suspect, Mohammed Naved, was caught alive by villagers after the duo had allegedly attacked and killed two BSF troopers on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Udhampur.


"Inspector Suresh Sharma of C/137 Quick Action Team of CRPF retaliated the attack and neutralised the militant," an official statement from the CRPF said, adding that Sharma was part of a road-opening party. But BSF director-general D.K. Pathak, who had gone to the ambush site in Udhampur yesterday, said one of the two troopers who died yesterday had killed the militant. Two BSF personnel - Rocky from Haryana and Subhendu Roy from Bengal -were killed when militants ambushed a BSF convoy. Read more