Overview

• Chinar Corps confirmed the deaths of Subedar Prabhat Gaur and Lance Naik Narender Sindhu during the encounter.
• The intelligence-led operation in Kulgam’s Guddar forest involved the Indian Army, J&K Police, CRPF and the Special Operations Group.
• A junior commissioned officer was injured in the firefight and was airlifted to a military hospital in Srinagar.
• Reports identified the second slain militant as local operative Aamir Ahmad Dar of Shopian, active since September 2023.
• Security forces recovered weapons and ammunition, sealed entry and exit routes and continued searches slowed by dense forest and wet weather.