Tension gripped in high-security Gupkar Road area on Monday morning when a BSF personnel deployed at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s residence fired in air to create panic. The trooper was reportedly stressed and was disarmed by colleagues.
Harmeet Singh, SP said that police swung into action after the gunshots were heard and overpowered the BSF man, who appeared to be “stressed”.
Omar Abdullah, who was not at his residence at the time of the incident, reacted through a Twitter message. “Not withstanding today’s (Monday’s) incident with the BSF jawan stationed at my residence in Srinagar I have full confidence in my security team,” he wrote on the microblogging site.
Meanwhile, unknown militants shot dead a villager in Dogripora village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late on Sunday evening. Ghulam Mohiuddin Dar was shot at wounded by militants but he succumbed on way to hospital.