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Mukhtar Ahmed in Srinagar
In an unprecedented development, militants on Wednesday morning gunned down the sessions judge of Rajouri along with his two bodyguards and driver at villageTalara in Jammu region.
This is for the first time that a senior judicial official has been gunned down in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 12 years of militancy.
Police sources said that the sessions judge Vijay Kumar Phull was on his way to Poonch from Rajouri in a private car.
The car was ambushed by a group of heavily armed militants near village Talara, 40 km from Rajouri.
"They hurled grenades and fired indiscriminately from their automatic weapons on the car," a senior police officer revealed on condition of anonymity.
"All the four occupants, including the judge, his two body guards and the driver died on the spot," the officer said on condition of anonymity.
"The judge was on way to Poonch to visit his relatives," he said.
The militants escaped after the attack.
No group has yet owned responsibility for attack.
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