The Union Home Ministry on Friday said no Special Police Officer has resigned in Jammu & Kashmir following the killing of three police personnel by banned terror group Hizbul Mujahideen and termed such reports as "false propaganda" by "mischievous" elements.

The Ministry also said that the terror groups are rattled by the action taken by the security forces against the terrorist groups and as many as 28 terrorists have been neutralized in Shopian alone this year.

28 terrorists have been neutralised this year in Shopian alone where the three policemen were killed on Friday.  "Due to pro-active actions of Jammu & Kashmir police, terrorists have been pushed to the corner and are being driven to desperation," the Home Ministry said.

"Reports have appeared in a section of media that some SPOs in Jammu & Kashmir have resigned.  The J&K police has confirmed that these reports are untrue and motivated.  These reports are based on false propaganda by mischievous elements," the Union Home Ministry said in a statement. 

"Jammu & Kashmir has a professional and committed police force which is fully geared up to meet the security challenges, including those related to Panchayat and Urban body elections," the statement further read.

There are over 30,000 SPOs and their services are reviewed from time to time.  Some mischievous elements are trying to project that those SPOs whose services are not renewed due to administrative reasons, have resigned. Terrorists are on backfoot in Jammu & Kashmir, the Home Ministry said.

The three policemen were abducted from their homes in south Kashmir's Shopian district and shot dead in cold blood by the Hizbul Mujahideen, the Jammu & Kashmir police said.

Earlier, reports in the Kashmiri media suggested that the killings had triggered panic in the lower ranks of the police department with at least six policemen resigning from service. Two of them issued video messages dissociating themselves from the police ranks.

"My name is Irshad Ahmad Baba and I was working as a constable in the police.  I have rendered my resignation...," said one of the SPOs in a video message being widely circulated on social media in Srinagar.

Tajalla Hussain Lone, another SPO, said he had resigned from the police department on September 17 and was issuing the video to put to rest any doubts, and that Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo has several times warned local policemen, especially SPOs, to resign from the force, saying that the Government is using them.