Cop suspended for missing rifle

Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 21: An INSAS rifle of a policeman guarding a shrine in South Kashmir district of Pulwama has gone missing and the cop was suspended.
Sources said a policeman, Fayaz Ahmad, posted at Awantipora shrine reported to his seniors that his service rifle, INSAS, went missing on July 18 from the shrine.
Policeman Fayaz Ahmad of 71 IR 2nd battalion had kept the INSAS service rifle in the guard room adjacent to the shrine of Syed Hassan Mantakiya Sahab and went for offering prayers. “After the cop returned from Masjid, he could not find the rifle inside the room”, the cop reported to his seniors.
Police launched searches to trace the missing rifle since the incident but failed to recover it. Fayaz Ahmad has been suspended along with his colleagues.
Police have registered a case and departmental inquiry has also been initiated.

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