NEW DELHI – The Indian Army Monday clearly indicated it would take actionagainst the killing of four army men in heavy retaliation shelling byPakistani forces along the LoC in the Rajouri district of Jammu andKashmir, saying that its action would speak for itself.
Vice chief Lt Gen Sarath Chand said the Army has been respondingappropriately to Pakistan shelling, asserting that India will continue togive a “befitting reply” to such acts.
“That (retaliation) goes without saying, I think I don’t have to say that.(Our) action will speak for itself,” he said when asked about the killingof a Captain and three other Army men in the Rajouri sector.
The Captain and three jawans were killed and at least four people injuredyesterday in the heavy Pakistani retaliatory shelling along the LoC.
Chand also accused the Pakistani Army of supporting the infiltration ofterrorists into Jammu and Kashmir. “We will continue with our process ofgiving a befitting reply (to such acts),” he told reporters on thesidelines of an event here.
“We have been responding appropriately,” he said.
“There has been cross-border shelling from their (Pakistan’s) side. And oneof the shells landed near the officer and his men, leading to thecasualties,” he said when asked about yesterday’s shelling. Captain KapilKundu, a resident of village Ransika in Haryana’s Gurgaon district, waskilled just six days before his 22nd birthday, Army officials said.
Havildar Roshan Lal, 42, a resident of Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir,Riflemen Ramavatar, 27, of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, and Subham Singh, 23,of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district were also killed in the shelling.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh link> saidearlier today Indians had full faith in the valour of the Army. “People ofthe country have full faith in the valour of the Indian Army,” the ministertold reporters outside Parliament when asked about the steps India wouldtake in response to the attack.