Brutality on Indian BSF Jawan | Soldier's throat slit by Pakistani troops; high alert sounded along border

Pakistani troops have slit throat of a BSF jawan after fatally shooting him along international border (IB) near Jammu, officials said on Wednesday.

brutal and "unprecedented" incident that took place in Ramgarh sector on Tuesday has prompted security forces to issue a "high alert" across IB and Line of Control (LoC) even as Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a strong complaint with its counterparts -- Pakistan Rangers.

Official sources said body of He Constable Narender Kumar also bore three bullet wounds and it could only be retrieved from a spot ahe of Indo-Pak fence after over six hours as Pakistani side "did not respond" to calls to maintain sanctity of frontier and ensure that BSF search parties were not fired upon.

Pakistan Rangers, sources said, was asked to take part in a joint patrolling to trace missing jawan, but y only came up to a certain point and cited waterlogging problems in area that prevented m from undertaking a coordinated action.

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BSF n waited for sun to set and launched a "risky operation" to bring jawan's body back to post by "late evening".

Officials in security establishment said incident of brutality with jawan, probably a first at IB, was taken "very seriously" by government and Ministry of External Affairs and Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) were also expected to take up issue with ir Pakistani counterparts.

y ded that since BSF patrol party that went ahe of fence to cut tall "sarkanda" (elephant) grass was first fired upon at 10.40 am on Tuesday, hectic phone calls and communication exchanges went on from Indian side to across border in order to locate jawan, who was first declared missing.

While BSF did not comment on developments, sources said force h alerted all its formations along IB and informed Army to be vigilant at LoC.

" body of jawan bears three bullet injuries and his throat has been slit. This is an unprecedented action that has happened with Indian forces along IB and Pakistani troopers are behind this. BSF and or forces will undertake a counter-action at a suitable time," an official said.

jawan was killed on spot after he was hit by a fatal sniper shot from across border, he ded.

BSF's Jammu frontier h yesterday issued a statement on incident but did not mention anything about hacking.

"A BSF party that was on domination patrolling ahe of fence was fired upon. BSF troops immediately took position and retaliated but enemy bullets hit a jawan. area on Pakistani side has a protective bundh close to IB," force h said in statement.

It h ded that area on Indian side was undulated, marshy and h a thick "sarkanda" growth that me tracing location of felled jawan difficult.

incident came a day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated maiden "smart fence" project of BSF in Jammu on Monday that aims to deploy smart technology and ggets to secure vulnerable patches on Indo-Pak border.