AGARTALA: The BSF Tripura Frontier has instituted an inquiry into a fragging on Thursday evening in 20 battalion that left two jawans dead and one seriously injured at Silacharri in Gomati district along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The BSF officials claimed that havildar Satbir Singh and constable Pratap Singh had a heate exchange of words during patrol duty along the border. At one point of time, in a fit of rage, constable Pratap shot havildar Satbir in the head from his Insas rifle. Satbir died on the spot.
Leaving the body at the border, Pratap returned to the camp and started to fire indiscriminately. At this time, sub-inspector Ram Kumar Singh came out and tried to pacify him and asked him to surrender. Pratap, still livid, shot Ram too.
The bullet hit the sub-inspector in the leg, injuring him seriously. Since Pratap was in no mood to surrender and was still firing indiscriminately, BSF sentry Abhimanyu Yadav shot him dead on the spot, a BSF source said. Ram was shifted to Agartala Government Medical College and Hospital, he added.
