Jammu: Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary here on Sunday joined the wreath laying ceremony of BSF Sub-Inspector Mohammed Imteyaz who was killed in cross-border shelling by Pakistan.
Minister Satish Sharma, BSF Inspector General (Jammu frontier) Shashank Anand, Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar, Jammu Inspector General of Police Bhim Sen Tuti and other senior BSF, police and civil officers also attended the ceremony to pay floral tributes to the slain officer.
Sub-Inspector Imteyaz, a resident of Bihar, lost his life and seven of his colleagues were injured when a mortar shell from Pakistan exploded near their post along the International Border in R S Pura sector on Saturday.
“I salute the supreme sacrifice of our BSF braveheart. His valour and sacrifice will never be forgotten. The entire nation stands firmly with the family of the martyr in this hour of grief,” the LG said.
Sinha also walked to the grieving son of the officer and expressed his sympathies to the family.
After the wreath laying ceremony, the tricolor-wrapped coffin carrying the body of the officer was dispatched to his home town for last rites.
Second BSF personnel succumbs to injury in Jammu
The BSF on Sunday said a second trooper was killed in action after Pakistan initiated cross-border firing in the Jammu region a day ago.
“Constable Deepak Chimngakham sustained fatal injuries during cross-border firing along the International Boundary in R S Pura area, Jammu district, on May 10, and attained martyrdom on May 11,” the Border Security Force (BSF) said in a social media post.
The BSF director general and all ranks express their deepest condolences to his family, it said.
Eight troopers of the BSF’s 7th Battalion were injured in Saturday’s shelling and sub-inspector Mohammed Imteyaz later succumbed to his injuries.
A wreath-laying ceremony was held with full military honours at the BSF’s frontier headquarters in Jammu’s Paloura on Sunday for Imteyaz.
His last rites will be performed at his native Narayanpur village in Bihar’s Saran district on Monday.
A similar wreath-laying ceremony to honour Chimngakham will be held at the BSF’s frontier headquarters on Monday.
The firing between BSF and Pakistani forces took place after India launched Operation Sindoor following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.
The military operation by the Indian Armed Forces was launched on May 7 and nine terror infrastructures were destroyed in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). All subsequent retaliations to Pakistani offensives were carried out as part of this operation.
The two countries reached an agreement to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea on Saturday after four days of cross-border strikes that triggered fears of a wider conflict.(PTI)
