Bathinda Military Station killings
\n BATHINDA
\nThree days after four soldiers were killed at the high-security Bathinda Military Station, the authorities are yet to nab the attackers.
\nTwo unidentified people were booked for murder on Wednesday. According to the FIR, an INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) rifle and a magazine with 28 cartridges that went missing from an army unit were used by the suspects in the attack. The rifle was found later in the day. However, the authorities are yet to find an axe which one of the attackers was carrying.
\nQuestions are being raised on why the strategically crucial establishment was being manned by unarmed guards. Officials keeping a close watch on the probe said it was also important to investigate why there was no armed security personnel even as a Lance Naik lost his INSAS rifle and a magazine.
\nThey said the attack could have been avoided or the armed guards would have reacted to a violent act that caused the deaths of four soldiers.
\nIn the FIR, Major Ashutosh Shukla of the 80 Middle Regiment had stated that security personnel around the crime spot were ordered to remain unarmed.
\nThis is why no army personnel fired in retaliation even after hearing gunshots and spotting two unidentified assailants in kurta-pyjama with their faces covered coming out of the barracks after the firing.
\n\u201cIt is for the army authorities to clarify under which circumstances the weapon and magazine went missing and why guards remained unarmed thereafter. The strategically important compound was not put on extra alert. It is evident from the police statement given by the army official that unarmed guards were stationed around the crime spot,\u201d said an official.
\nThere has been no official communication from the army authorities on the killings since Wednesday evening.
\nInvestigators are baffled by no recovery of an axe that was allegedly spotted near the crime scene. Police officials said it is important to recover the axe to connect the dots as the army authorities in their complaint have stated that one of the unidentified assailants was carrying it.
\nPolice and army authorities have confirmed the recovery of an INSAS rifle and a magazine with 28 cartridges hours from the military station after the jawans were shot dead in their sleep at the barracks near an officers\u2019 mess on Wednesday morning.
\nBathinda superintendent of police (investigation) Ajay Gandhi, who is heading the probe, said on Friday that the axe allegedly involved in the crime has still not been found yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bathinda Military Station killings BATHINDA Three days after four soldiers were killed at the high-security Bathinda Military Station, the authorities are yet to nab the attackers. Two unidentified people were booked for murder on Wednesday. According to the FIR, an INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) rifle and a magazine with 28 cartridges that went missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n