October 29
The chief of Indian Army, General Bipin Rawat on Monday said the Army was looking into reports that snipers may have entered the Kashmir Valley to target security forces, PTI reported. The Army was yet to find any sniper weapons, he said.
Since mid-September, suspected militants affiliated to the Jaish-e-Mohammed have killed three Government Force personnel in sniper attacks in Jammu Kashmir. Rawat said that the Army was studying if the pattern of attacks showed they were carried out by snipers.
“Whether these attacks have been done by snipers or not, this is something we are still studying,” he said. “But to say that snipers have infiltrated and that they have sniper weapons…we have not found any sniper weapon.”
Rawat described reports of snipers infiltrating the Valley as “premature”.