Rijiju visits injured DIG in AIIMS

New Delhi, February 23

Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Saturday visited the AIIMS Trauma Centre here to enquire about the health of Deputy Inspector General of Police Amit Kumar, who was admitted to the hospital after sustaining injuries during an encounter in Pulwama district of the Valley recently.

After visiting Kumar, a 2006-batch IPS officer, Rijiju said the brave officer was “out of danger now”.

“He was hit by a bullet fired by a terrorist during a counter-terror operation in Pulwama on February 18, in which three dreaded terrorists were killed,” the Union Minister tweeted.

Kumar, posted as the DIG, south Kashmir, was injured in a fierce encounter between militants and security personnel.

The officer was first shifted to a local Army hospital in Kashmir before being shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

The encounter took place after the security forces, based on specific intelligence, launched an operation to nab the alleged Pulwama attack mastermind Kamran, alias Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

As many as 40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured on February 14 in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying a huge quantity of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.

The bus was part of a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying CRPF personnel from Jammu to Srinagar. — PTI

He (DIG, south Kashmir, Amit Kumar) was hit by a bullet fired by a terrorist during a counter-terror operation in Pulwama on February 18, in which three dreaded terrorists were killed.— Kiren Rijiju, union minister