Excuses will start pouring now, the same story every time -
- Jungle was dense
- Trts were at a height
- They were hiding in caves
- They had local support
RR / 9 PARA has been operating in Kashmir for 30+ years, still, these factors are still surprising you?
What I am getting from different sources, is it is very easy to trigger IA and bait them into an ambush.
They swallow the bait whole and chase you like a mindless bull.
Plenty more plus the fight to take credit for the kill.
India News:Army, CRPF claim credit for terrorists’ killing
www.thehindu.com
Quoting Hindu because they have narrated the incident as it actually happened. A few pliant media houses either redacted the story or edited it leaving out the inconvenient bits.
Army, CRPF claim credit for terrorists’ killing
June 28, 2016 02:50 am | Updated October 18, 2016 02:11 pm IST - NEW DELHI:
Barely an hour after eight Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in an ambush by two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Pampore area of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, the Army and the CRPF had rushed to claim credit for killing the terrorists.
A senior CRPF official said that while they were busy evacuating the injured personnel on June 25, the Rashtriya Rifles unit of the Indian Army, which is also posted in Pampore, arrived at the scene and took away the two AK-47 rifles used by the LeT terrorists. The commanding officer of the CRPF had to be sent to the Rashtriya Rifles base in Pampore to bring back the weapons, also a crucial piece of evidence, claimed the official.
“When the commanding officer of the CRPF reached the RR camp, their photographer was clicking pictures of the jawans with the weapons. The idea was to establish that they had killed the terrorists and recovered the weapons.”
Army officials denied the CRPF’s claims and said it was a joint operation and they had handed over the weapons to the Jammu and Kashmir police in accordance with the law.
Tweet corrected
The friction between the two forces started when the Northern Army command posted a message from its official Twitter handle on June 25. The message, posted at 5.38 p.m. on Saturday, read: “Army kills two terrorists who fired upon CRPF convoy at Pampore, Kashmir Ops in prog. Injured CRPF personnel being attended to.”
The CRPF top brass took up the matter with RR officials. An hour later, another message was posted from the Twitter handle of the Northern Command, which said: “Two terrorists killed by CRPF in retaliatory action. Earlier tweet stands corrected.”
The official also claimed that two packets of dates, which the terrorists were carrying, were taken away by the RR troops.
“We literally had to fight with them to get back the weapons. The fact is that the CRPF jawans, who were in an armoured vehicle behind the bus, were the ones who killed the terrorists. RR unit reached the scene of attack almost 15 minutes later,” said the official.
An Army official denied taking away the weapons. “The RR troops which responded helped evacuate CRPF casualties as well as terrorists from the site of the encounter. Bodies of terrorists and their weapons, ammunition and magazines were handed over to J&K police as per the law.”
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The videos on twitter back then showed both sides going at each other aggressively with guns drawn. Downright embarrassing and shameful.
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