JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Police foiled an attempt made by some militants to abduct the acting Uni-Chancellor of Kashmir University Prof. Abdul Rashid Mattoo in Srinagar. An official release said that a group of prof. Mattoos office and tried to take him to some unknown destination.
But a police party deployed at the university intervened and the militants fled the release said.
The Director-General of Police and the Inspector General of Police Kashmir Range have announced a cash award of Rs. 2000 for the alert police personnel for their commendable job the release said.
Meanwhile Pakistani troops opened fire at six places in the Poonch sector provoking the Indian security forces to return the fire official sources confirmed.
The sources said that the trouble began when Indian security forces objected to Pakistani troops encroaching on Indian top by digging trenches and other military installations.
The firing took place at Kerni Goontrain Sokar Bagyaldara Nakkarkot and Dabbi sectors of Poonch but no loss of life was reported the sources said. They said that the main intention of Pakistani forces was to push as many as Kashmiri: militants into the Indian side to give a new lease of life to the waking militancy in Kashmir.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 12, 1992
