Court of Inquiry against Major who opened fire on colleagues in Rajouri district.

GNS ONLINE NEWS PORTAL 
SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI  OCTOBER 06:–The Army has initiated a ‘Court of Inquiry’ against a Major of 48 Rashtriya Rifles who allegedly opened fire on his colleagues and hurle grenade(s) inside a camp at Dhara in Thanamandi tehsil of Rajouri district on Thursday reportedly after a dispute over some personal issue.
According to reports, five personnel, including the Commanding Officer (CO), Deputy CO and Medical Officer (MO), were injured in the unfortunate incident.
The Army is tight-lipped over the entire episode. However, on Thursday night PRO Defence (Jammu) shared a post of White Knight Corps on X (earlier Twitter) which read: “ On 5 October 23 one officer was injured in a likely grenade accident at a post in Rajouri sector. Officer evacuated and stable post initial treatment. Further investigation of the incident in progress”.
Sources said the unfortunate incident continued for about eight hours causing panic inside the camp and in the entire area before the erring Major was overpowered & detained for further questioning.
Sources added that the firing practice had been going on inside the camp for the last few days & the erring officer on Thursday afternoon over some personal issues opened fire on the colleagues and later took shelter inside the camp armoury.
Reportedly when the Commanding Officer along with his deputy and Medical Officer was heading towards the armoury to convince him to surrender, the erring Major hurled grenades toward them and all received injuries
Sources said two soldiers were also injured in the incident.