Kashmir: Army jawan commits suicide by shooting self in Samba

The army said that the police have registered a case and post-mortem has been conducted.

Update: 2017-02-17 11:42 GMT
It comes after the Centre told the panel that the Defence Ministry had sent a recommendation to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to make military service of five years compulsory for those aiming for direct recruitment in the central and state government services. (Photo: AP/File)

Jammu: An Army jawan committed suicide by shooting himself, in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district. The weapon was his service rifle prompting the army to order a Court of Inquiry (CoI).

Havildar Krishen Singh shot himself with his INSAS rifle at army unit in Maheswar area in Samba district on Thursday morning and died, Army officials said.

The police have registered a case and post-mortem has been conducted, they said. Singh was from Rajasthan and had joined army in 1997.

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