Outrage over mutilation of jawan's body; family demands Pak be taught a lesson

Srinagar/New Delhi/Kurukshetra: The Army jawan’s brutal killing by terrorists aided by Pakistan’s forces has sparked widespread outrage and calls for retribution. Four jawans each from the BSF and the Army have died in border clashes in Jammu and Kashmir over the past one week.

Sepoy Mandeep Singh, 30, was killed while fighting terrorists who later mutilated his body in Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday night, prompting the Army to vow revenge.

The martyr’s inconsolable family at gloomy Aantehri village in Haryana’s Kurukshetra demanded that Pakistan be taught a lesson. His brother, Sandeep Singh, demanded “10 Pakistani heads to avenge” the barbaric killing.

Several women from Aantehri village in Kurukshetra reached the martyr’s house and tried to console Mandeep’s widow. The couple had got married two years ago, family members said. Mandeep’s widow Prerna is a head constable with Haryana police and posted at Shahbad Markanda in Kurukshetra. His father said the army should give a befitting reply to Pakistan.

In 2013, Pakistan’s forces had beheaded an Indian soldier and mutilated another’s body in J&K, leaving the two countries teetering on the brink of war.
Meanwhile, heavy mortar shelling by Pakistan continued in Kathua and Abdullian areas of the R.S. Pura sector on Saturday. Indian troops are giving a befitting response, officials said.

The escalation in border firing comes even as Pakistan expelled on Thursday an Indian high commission official in Islamabad after a staffer of the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi was caught spying.