Jammu, June 27 -- Shortly after Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday appealed to the devotees to turn up in large numbers at Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra, which is scheduled to begin from July 3, a joint team of security forces gunned down a terrorist in the Basantgarh area of Udhampur district.
An elite Para Commando of the Indian Army was earlier 'killed in action' during a similar cordon and search operation in the forest area of Dudu Basantgarh on April 24 this year. The Indian Army's White Knight Corps, in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, launched Operation Bihali after receiving credible intelligence about the presence of terrorists in the Bihali area of Basantgarh. "Contact was established with the terrorists early ...