A 54-year-old Pakistani prisoner was critically injured after he was attacked early on Friday by a fellow inmate, a court-martialled Indian soldier who is also serving a life term for murder in the high-security Kot Balwal jail on the outskirts of Jammu. The Pakistani, Rana Sanaullah Haq, was shifted to Chandigarh’s PGI Hospital where he is reported to be “stable”.

The local police in Jammu has registered a case against Vinod Kumar, a former Army jawan convicted of the murder of a colleague in Ladakh, for assaulting Pakistani prisoner Rana Sanaullah Haq in Kot Balwal jail, on the outskirts of Jammu.

Four policemen were killed in a militant ambush outside the Kashmiri town of Sopore on Friday evening. The assailants fled the scene of crime along with the service rifles of the slain policemen and a massive manhunt for them is underway, reports said.

The Kashmir police on Tuesday detained fugitive Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen and two of his aides from Sonamarg, a hill resort in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district 87 km northeast of Srinagar.

A British tourist was found murdered on Saturday morning in her room on a houseboat in Srinagar’s Dal Lake. A Dutch national staying in another room on the same houseboat was found trying to flee Kashmir, leaving behind his belongings in his room. He was arrested from Qazigund, the gateway to the Valley from the south and about 75 km from the scene of the crime, and brought back to Srinagar for questioning.

Preliminary police investigations found Briton Sara Elizabeth Groves had been stabbed to death as she had multiple stab wounds and a knife was found next to her. She may have resisted sexual assault, a police official said, adding that the suspect smashed the latch on the houseboat cabin door before the attack.

The police on Wednesday said preliminary investigations point to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants being responsible for the murder of a youth in a mosque in Sopore.

Gunmen shot dead an 18-year-old youth inside a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir’s north-western town of Sopore late Tuesday night.

The Jammu and Kashmir police has launched a massive manhunt for two residents of Uri who reportedly ferried the group of alleged Pakistani militants involved in Wednesday’s fidayeen attack on the CRPF

Militants pretending to be players and hiding automatic rifles and grenades in cricket kit bags opened fire on a makeshift CRPF camp, killing five jawans and injuring six others, at Bemina, a Srinagar