Global InformationBeheading of Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar information
The beheading of Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar by a group of militants led by Ilyas Kashmiri of HuJI happened in the Rajouri district of Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir on 27 February 2000. Talekar was an Indian soldier on guard duty at the Ashok Listening Post.
All seven soldiers on duty from the 17 Maratha Light Infantry battalion were killed by Kashmiri's men. Talekar was beheaded and his head was carried across the line of control to Pakistan.