A police officer said on Tuesday that the two boys – Deen (15) and his relative Rehmat Ali (12) — had gone missing on February 27 after they had gone to graze their cattle at Bhamberwan.
The DIG met the families of the missing boys and assured them that all possible measures would be taken to locate them.
Kathua has been in the news after the bodies of 15-year-old Varun Singh, his paternal uncle Yogesh Singh (32), and maternal uncle Darshan Singh (40) were found in Ishu nullah in the remote Malhar area in the higher reaches of the district on Saturday. The trio had gone missing on March 5.
Last month, the bodies of two other people — Shamsher (37) and Roshan (45) — were found in Kohag village in Kathua district, with postmortem reports indicating strangulation.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in the Assembly that the circumstances surrounding these deaths were under investigation.
“What happened, how it happened and why it happened is a matter of investigation which is going on. Discussing it in the House will not be appropriate,” he said on Monday.
Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday pointed to the involvement of terrorists in the killing of three civilians in a remote area in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district.
The killings sparked protest and a shutodwn in the area on Sunday.
