Soldier shoots superior dead after reprimand for cell phone
use
An Indian soldier shot dead his superior after he was
reprimanded for using a mobile phone while on the job in India-administered
Kashmir.
Maj. Shikhar Thapa admonished the soldier for using his phone
during work hours and the screen of the smartphone was damaged as he tried to
confiscate it.
According to military sources, a heated altercation followed
and the soldier fired at the officer with his automatic rifle.
Thapa died soon after of fatal gunshot wounds.
Incidents of soldiers killing their colleagues are not
uncommon in India, particularly in Kashmir where the Indian forces are battling
a violent separatist insurgency.
There were three cases of fatriside a soldier killing a
fellow soldier or a superior in 2016, the Defence Ministry said in a statement
placed in Parliament in March.
In 2016, 101 soldiers had committed suicide while in
February 2014, a soldier gunned down five colleagues before shooting himself,
also in Kashmir.
In the past, such incidents of shootings and suicides by
troops have been blamed by army officials on soldiers’ stress due to hostile
condition and long separations from their families. (NAN)
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