Two militants were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said. "The militants who were in hiding fired at security forces triggering a brief gun battle in which both militants were killed. The exact identity and affiliation of the slain militants is being ascertained," an officer said.

The court martial proceedings against Major Leetul Gogoi, who was at the centre of 2017 'human shield' controversy, have been completed and he may face reduction in seniority as-a-punishment for "fraternising" with a local woman in Srinagar last year, officials said. The Army CoI had recommended disciplinary action against Gogoi after it indicted him as-well-as his driver for the Srinagar-hotel incident on May-23 last-year.