I'm sorry but shooting him? I take it most people have seen what shepherds in Punjab look like right? They are literally are wearing a shirt, shalwar/dhotti and and carry a stick. They could have just asked him what he was doing there or taken him in. This is disgraceful. Even BSF men have been sent back when they ended up across the border.
I maybe wrong but I can't remember the Rangers doing the same.
You cannot generalise,
@waz . It depends on when it occurred. Very early and very late in the day, it is not easy to make out who is doing what, and it is not easy to stand up, march up and accost a shadowy figure, especially if there are others possibly lurking in hiding.
This stretch is rife with smugglers. There has been intense pressure on the border security forces to stop drug smuggling and to relieve the extreme pressure of drugs supplies in the Punjab. They have been accused of conniving with smugglers and have been accused repeatedly of being soft on cross-borders passage, with the obvious insinuations of why they turned out soft.
And while it is not correct to state that the Rangers do not do the same, it is on the other hand correct, without going into detail and collecting corroborative evidence to make a point, to remind ourselves that the traffic is asymmetric.
If you wish, however, like that nut-case I remember from some years ago, incidents where the Rangers have been quick on the trigger can be accumulated and reported, but the fact remains that there is an interest seeking access to Indian territory, there is no traffic going the other way, other than Bangladeshis trying to break through to the promised land. Even that has practically died out in recent years.
From my knowledge, I can't recall the Rangers gunning an Indian civilian down. I hope Pakistan makes a complaint, and asks for an investigation, preferably with the regular Indian army investigating.
I'm shocked to be honest.
Fair enough.
Let the incident be investigated. There are regular flag-meetings; let this be raised as a subject. If you have access, ask the Rangers to raise it and to report the results.
Very sad but unfortunately this is the way how it is.
It's sheer stupidity to herd the animals anywhere near the border. Especially when you live near the border of a country that have 7 lakh occupier terrorists busy massacring hundreds of innocents.
Unfortunately in this case, he had to pay with his life.
Since you seem to have the statistics at your fingertips, would you mind explaining to the uneducated public how you got the figure of 7 lakh? If you do not have an explanation, do you mind not repeating this garbage again and again, after it has been contradicted with hard evidence a dozen or more times?