The Special Operations Group personnel were recovered with bullet wounds after they went missing on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir.
The bullet-riddled bodies of two Special Police Officers (SPOs) were recovered from the Dachhan forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Thursday, according to reports by The Times of India and India Today.
The officers, identified as Rashpal Kumar, 45, and Babi Chand, 57, had gone missing on Wednesday afternoon while they were travelling from Kiyar to Basnan in the Inderwan area.
The two personnel were part of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and were reportedly on their way to relieve a team from the Army's 17 Rashtriya Rifles at an Army post.
Search parties found the bodies nearly 2 km from the location where the officers were last seen. Sources stated that both men had been shot multiple times and their service weapons were missing.
The disappearance occurred after gunfire was heard in the Deharna forest area of Marwah on Wednesday afternoon. Officials noted that the missing weapons have raised suspicions of a militant angle.
A large search operation has been launched to locate those involved in the abduction and killing of the officers.
