Kishtwar, Mar 12: Police have registered a case against an army personnel for allegedly resorting to burglaries in Koriya village of this mountainous district, official sources said.
 They added that the case was registered under Section 380 (theft) and 358 (trespass) of Ranbir Penal Code against Lance Naik Karan Singh of Army’s Dogra Regiment after the locals filed a written complaint in Kishtwar police station.
 Reports reaching here revealed that hundreds of people from Koriya village took to streets and staged protest demonstration against the Army. The protestors raised slogans against the police and Army and blocked vehicular movement for more than three hours. The villagers alleged that a masked man barged into the house of a villager, Ghulam Hassan Lone, late last night and took away two blankets from the house. The burglar later barged into the house of another villager Muhammad Sabir and decamped with some cash after breaking open the locks of a suit case, the villagers alleged.
 They claimed that some locals noticed the masked man coming out of the house and chased him. “Though the burglar managed to flee from the spot, he left behind his jacket,” the villagers told the police adding, “From the jacket an identity card was recovered which identified the burglar as Lance Naik Karan Singh.”
 Sensing the situation, SP, DySP Operations and SHO Kishtwar rushed to the spot. They seized the identity card and jacket and assured that appropriate action under law would be taken.
 Later, based on a written complaint, police registered the case under FIR No 46/2011 at police station Kishtwar.

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