News Topic:J&K Police

At least 21 cops who are posted in Kulgam district have tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, officials said here.

One policeman was killed and another injured after militants attacked a joint party of Police and paramilitary CRPF in Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Thursday.

Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested three youth who had purportedly posted photographs on the social media holding guns and announced that they had joined militant ranks.

Budgam Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a module of militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and arrested four persons who were working as Over Ground Workers (OGW) of militants in the district.

Restrictions were imposed in southern Kashmir's Pulwama district after a militant, belonging to the area, was killed in the Nawa Kadal gunfight yesterday.

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested twenty seven persons and seized 26 vehicles who were illegally extracting sand from Nallah Rambi Ara in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

Director General of J&K Police, Dilbagh Singh on Tuesday said that one of the two slain militants in Nawa Kadal encounter have been identified as Hizbul Mujahideen’s divisional commander for central Kashmir Junaid Sehrai, the son of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai.

An unidentified militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter at Nawa Kadal area of Downtown Srinagar while as the operation is going on, police said.