Pak BAT attack: We are alert, ready for any situation, assures BSF

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The operations were underway.

The Indian Army is giving a bifitting reply to the ceasefire violation that is taking place in Khari Karmara areas of the Poonch sector. Naik Jadhav Sandip Sarjerao hailed from Aurangabad in Maharashtra and is survived by wife Ujala.

Yesterday, an attempt of armed intrusion by Pakistan's Border Action Team (BAT) in Poonch was foiled at 2 p.m.

"The BAT attackers had crossed the LoC and come 600 metres into the Indian side".

They said the patrol party was ambushed in which two army men identified as Naik Sandeep Yadav and Sepoy Savan Mani were killed and another identified as Sepoy Radi, wounded critically.

The Pakistani firing continued till 3.30 PM, the official said, adding the Indian posts retaliated strongly.

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That attack too was carried out under the cover of shelling by the Pakistani troops. In a unsoldierly act by the Pak Army, the bodies of two of our soldiers in the patrol were mutilated.

In February 2000, seven months after the Kargil War, a Pakistani BAT killed seven Indian soldiers in Nowshera in Rajouri district. Constable Rajinder Singh of the BSF battalion had suffered injuries in the attack.

Meanwhile, army also claimed to have foiled an infiltration bid in Keran Sector by killing an intruder.

The troops challenged them, triggering a gunbattle in which one militant was killed, he said.

Operations are in progress and heavy exchange of fire is going on.

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