Overview
- Officials confirmed Thursday that two Special Police Officers who went missing from the Dacchan‑Marwah area were found dead about two kilometres from where they vanished, with multiple gunshot wounds and their weapons not recovered.
- A motorcycle‑borne gun attack at a CRPF checkpost in Kulgam on Wednesday wounded three personnel, CCTV footage captured the incident and quick‑reaction teams were sent to track the suspected bike and riders.
- Army units, Jammu & Kashmir Police Special Operations Group and central forces have launched wide searches using drones and sniffer dogs across steep forest and high‑ground terrain while investigators treat the Kishtwar killings as a militant abduction and murder.
- Separate, active investigations include an arrest in Shanxi after an excavator damaged a civic building over a reported compensation dispute, a Kurung Kumey (Arunachal Pradesh) fire that destroyed about 20 homes and left two confirmed dead, and five arrests in a Darbhanga 62 kg silver theft that led to the suspension of a BJP local leader.
- CCTV and phone videos have supplied key leads across multiple cases by identifying vehicles and sequences, accelerating searches and heightening local fears for the safety of security personnel and civilians in Jammu & Kashmir.