India, March 27 -- Four Jammu and Kashmir policemen, including a sub divisional police officer, were injured in an encounter that broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Juthana area of Dinga Amb in Kathua district on Thursday morning.

Police said the injured policemen, including deputy SP Dheeraj Katoch, had been rushed to Government Medical College and Hospital at Kathua, where their condition was stated to be stable.

The encounter started while search operations were underway in the forests adjoining Saniyal village of the district. Juthana is 37km from Saniyal village.

On Tuesday, a local resident, Darshana Devi, had informed the police that two men in army fatigues carrying backpacks had asked her for water. The wo...