Gunfight between Indian police, rebels kills 5 in Kashmir

"In a region where inadvertent crossings across the unmarked Line of Control (LoC) are a regular occurrence, the claim by Indian authorities is simply ludicrous", said Chaudhry Tariq Farooq, a senior AJK minister.

"Ashfaq was found moving suspiciously near the LoC and surrendered immediately on being challenged by the Indian Army patrol", the PTI said.

The Nowshera sector of Rajouri district faces the Samahni sector in Bhimber district of Azad Jammu Kashmir.

BSF head constable Prem Sagar and Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh of the Indian Army were on patrol at the Line of Control in Kashmir when they were ambushed and mutilated by a Border Action Team of Pakistani army men and terrorists that sneaked 200 metres into Indian territory. The sources said that it exposed Pakistan on the human rights front as to how a 12-year-old child was pushed by them into the Indian territory to probe LoC areas seeded with minefields in a highly militarised belt.

The boy will be handed over to the police for further investigation.

As many as 1142 militant related incidents were reported in the state between 2012 and 2016 in which 236 security personnel and 90 civilians were killed, it said in reply to an RTI query filed by a PTI Bhasha correspondent.