The body of Hemant Kumar Lohia, the region's director general of prisons, was found at his home in the Jammu region, police say.

Bank manager Vijay Kumar was attacked by a suspected militant inside a branch of the Ellaquai Dehati Bank in southern Kashmir's Kulgam, where a schoolteacher was shot dead, local police say.

The man, a government employee, was shot and killed inside an office complex in Budgam where he worked.

'The Kashmir Files' has proved a box office hit, but critics say it is loose with facts and fans anti-Muslim sentiment.

Kashmir has long been a flashpoint between India and arch rival Pakistan, each of which controls only parts of the Himalayan territory but makes claims to it in full.

The pair – who police said had died in 'crossfire' on Monday in a gunfight with suspected separatists – had been hurriedly interred by authorities in a remote graveyard.

New Delhi has for decades stationed at least 500,000 soldiers in the divided Himalayan territory, which is also claimed and partially controlled by arch-rival Pakistan.

Suspected militants have killed eleven civilians, including five migrant workers, in Kashmir since early October despite a widespread security crackdown in the heavily militarised region.

At least 28 people, including nine civilians, have been gunned down in the past two weeks.

Police say no stone will be left unturned to find the killers.

At least 28 civilians have been killed by suspected militants this year in the Muslim-majority region.

Anger has been simmering in the Muslim-majority area since New Delhi scrapped its semi-autonomy and allowed all Indians to buy land in Kashmir, leaving locals fearing an influx of Hindus.