WB: 3 CRPF personnel killed in fratricide

In the latest incident of fratricidal killing among security forces, three CRPF men were killed in Maoist-dominated Lalgarh in Jungle Mahal of West Bengal.

Sources said that two CRPF personnel, Constables Riyaz Ahmed Bhatt and R Kumar, were shot by Head Constable Tulsidas on Tuesday evening, who later killed himself.

The incident took place around 8 in the evening at their Company camp at Shilapara near Lalgarh. They deceased belong to ‘Bravo’ company of the forces 184 battalion deployed for anti-Naxal duties in the state. According to district Police Super P K Tripathy, the incident took place following a quarrel among the trio.

This is third such incident in West Bengal’s Jungle Mahal area since June 18, 2009 where jawans of Anti-Maoist forces killed themselves.

Apart from this, this incident is second in 12 days where CRPF personnel got involved in fratricidal killing of their own men. The earlier incident happened on December 24, at Kulgam district of South Kashmir where three personnel lost lives. In another incident few days back, 2 BSF personnel were killed by their colleagues in Kashmir.