This is the fifth ceasefire violation in the month of September and the third in the past 36 hours.
Army on Friday handed over about 37 acres of demined farmland to the villagers in the Akhnoor belt along the Line of Control in the Jammu district.
"Around 3:30 am Pakistan troops opened small arms fire and then switched to machine gun fire. Subsequently they started firing mortars at Darkote, Platan and Channi Dewanu posts of the Indian army," a police officer from Khour police station was quoted as saying.
The army was on Saturday deployed in various parts of the tense Jammu as the sikh youth killed in clashes with police was cremated after the state government accepted most of the demands of the agitating community.
"Assistant Sub Inspector of BSF A K Upadhayay was injured when a shell exploded near him in RS Pura sector. He received splinter injures in his hand", a BSF spokesman said.
The BSF was effectively retaliating and the firefight was going on.
BSF chief K K Sharma said Pakistani forces are deliberately trying to "create a flash point" to facilitate infiltration of terrorists into India and asserted that these designs will be foiled.
'We are alive only because of these border bunkers,' say residents.
Class 10 student, Surinder Kumar risked his life and returned home from a makeshift camp miles away to collect his books that he could not pick up while fleeing to safety.
Several households along the IB sustained damages in the overnight mortar-shelling from across the border, local residents said.
In the frontier areas of Jammu district, the number of people staying in the safe camps has also dwindled as the people want to tend to their standing crops.
In December last year, the Centre had decided to construct community bunkers along International Border and Line of Control for being used during shelling and firing by Pak.
Most of the houses in this village have been abandoned as the residents have migrated to safer places to save themselves from the ceasefire violation from the Pakistani side.
A few incidents of protests were reported in Jammu city even as mobile Internet services remained suspended and policemen deployed in strength to thwart any flare up.
Leh assembly constituency has set up a polling station at Gaik village which has only 12 registered voters.
A 67-year-old resident, Mangat Ram and a BSF jawan was injured in the firing.
Pakistan Rangers resorted to ceasefire violations by targeting civilian population in RS Pura sector in Jammu.
As many as 16 people mostly women have been injured in the cross border firing in the RS Pura sector in the past two days.
Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani troops targeted civilian areas and forward security posts along the International Border and Line of Control in Jammu, Kathua, Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmir remained on the edge with six more persons, including a cop getting killed in violence on Sunday.
Families of martyred asked the government to take stern action against Pakistan
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