Fight with cops lands 3 Armymen in trouble
Shariq Majeed/Tribune News Service

Poonch, June 7
The police booked three Army personnel and brother of one of them for allegedly assaulting some policemen and creating nuisance inside a court complex in Rajouri yesterday. All the four persons are residents of Jamola village near Rajouri.

Police sources said naib subedar Muhammad Qayoom’s mother died on May 30. He had forwarded an application in the session court Rajouri and sought that his father Sarwar Khan, who is facing murder charges, be granted rights to attend the last rites of his mother.

The court had granted the permission in the case and instructed the SP (Central Jail) Rajouri to send Sarwar Khan to perform the last rites of his wife but Sarwar reportedly refused to go handcuffed. Since the jail authorities refused to allow him to attend the last rites on his conditions, Sarwar didn’t attend the religious rites, the sources added.

Police sources further said yesterday Muhammad Qayoom along with his younger brother Zakir Hussain (whose is believed to have been discharged by the Army authorities because of ill mental state) and two other relatives, rifleman Muhammad Ayub and naik Naseer Ahmed, entered the courtroom to move application for early justice to Sarwar Khan.

But the judge reportedly told them to proceed in the desired legal manner. All of them came out of the courtroom. But in the court complex they had an altercation with the deployed policeman, which turned into a major brawl, sources added. The armymen and policemen continued to fight and exchanged fists and blows.

In the meantime, the matter was brought to the notice of the SSP and additional force was rushed to the court and the armymen were taken into custody. Later they were shifted to police station Rajouri.

Rajouri SSP Rajesh Kumar said the armymen have been taken into custody and appropriate action will be taken against them.