{"id":302739,"date":"2018-09-17T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302739"},"modified":"2018-09-17T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:02:34","slug":"himachal-pradesh-army-jawan-shoots-dead-two-colleagues-at-dharamshala-before-committing-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-army-jawan-shoots-dead-two-colleagues-at-dharamshala-before-committing-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Army Jawan shoots dead two colleagues at Dharamshala before committing suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-army-jawan-shoots-dead-two-colleagues-at-dharamshala-before-committing-suicide\/mi-station-dharamshala\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302740\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302740 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-696x476.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala-614x420.jpg 614w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mi-station-dharamshala.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a>In a shocking incident, an Army jawan allegedly shot dead his two colleagues before committing suicide at Dharamshala cantonment in Himachal Pradesh in the wee hours on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, Sepoy Jasvir Singh a soldier of 18 Sikh regiment fired at Havaldar Hardeep Singh and Naik Harpal Singh with his INSAS rifle before shooting himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place at around 2:15 am inside the cantonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jasvir Singh had joined the Army a year and half ago, while the two deceased Hardeep Singh and Harpal Singh had completed 23 and 18 years of service, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Jasbir hailed from Barnala while Havaldar Hardeep Singh belonged to Tarn Taran and Naik Harpal Singh, hailed from Gurdaspur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe reason behind the drastic move is yet to be ascertained,\u201d the police official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officials of military intelligence and Kangra police have reached the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The investigation in the matter is currently underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking incident, an Army jawan allegedly shot dead his two colleagues before committing suicide at Dharamshala cantonment in Himachal Pradesh in the wee hours on Monday. As per the reports, Sepoy Jasvir Singh a soldier of 18 Sikh regiment fired at Havaldar Hardeep Singh and Naik Harpal Singh with his INSAS rifle before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[3454,5058,1340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302742,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302739\/revisions\/302742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}