New Delhi: In yet another instance of friction in an Army unit, jawans and officers of an armoured unit were allegedly involved in a face-off after a soldier committed suicide on Wednesday in Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir.
This is the second such incident in the last four months when officers and jawans have locked horns. In Nyoma in Ladakh, a commanding officer, two majors and two jawans were grievously injured in clashes in May after alleged ill-treatment of soldiers.
Taking exception to the incident, Defence Minister AK Antony has sought a detailed report from Army Chief Gen. Bikram Singh who is touring Western Command, under which the incident has taken place, sources said.
The army has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) under a senior officer into the matter. The army CoI into the Nyoma incident, which was a "much more" serious breach of discipline and failure of command and control, has not yet been completed, they said....
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03:15 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Jammu: The operation to dug open the 400-meter long tunnel, which was discovered on Saturday along the Indo-Pak Border in Samba district is in full swing. A team of senior officials from New Delhi will be visiting the spot on Sunday to have a look at the cross-border tunnel. BSF troops are using more dozers and men to find out origin of the tunnel towards the Indo-Pak border. "The operation... 
