bsf headquarter firing: Edit: Firing of BSF jawans is not just a matter of mental health of jawans, opinion on firing by bsf jawan in amritsar bhf headquater
The manner in which a jawan opened fire on Sunday at the BSF headquarters in Khasa, Amritsar, killing four of his colleagues and killing himself, is a worrying incident. According to the details of the incident, Jawan CT Sattepa shot a clerk after reaching the office first. Then he went to the barracks and started firing indiscriminately. He also opened fire on the officer’s vehicle, but he survived. It is true that only preliminary information has come to the fore, on the basis of which no concrete conclusion can be drawn. The police have not only registered the case, the Court of Inquiry has also been ordered. But senior BSF officers have made two things clear from now on. One, it is not a case of displeasure over a situation like non-availability of leave. Two, there is no angle of old enmity in this. If without any investigation, at the initial stage itself, there is enough evidence on the basis of which these two possibilities can be completely ruled out, then naturally the scope of investigation becomes limited. It would have been better if senior BSF officers would have allowed the investigation process to reach its logical conclusion and then consider the conclusions drawn from it, instead of making their findings public.