The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday seized 5 extra grenades together with a piston and 35 rounds from a village alongside the Line of Control within the Mendhar space of Poonch district and claimed to have foiled a “major terror plot to fuel tension in Jammu division”.
This was the third consecutive seizure of arms, ammunition and grenades in Mendhar after the latest busting of a terror module and the arrest of three terror associates on December 28, final 12 months, police mentioned. They had been recognized as Mustafa Khan of Galuta, Mohammad Yaseen and Rayees Ahmed. The final two are residents of Dabbi, Balakote.
On the idea of leads obtained from sustained interrogation of the arrested terror facilitators, the police and the Army launched a joint operation at Dabbi village, which falls forward of the barbed wire fencing alongside the LoC within the Balakote space, and it will definitely led them to the ammunition dump on Sunday.
The busted terror module owed allegiance to “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force”, which is being operated from the PoK, police mentioned, including that the outfit, other than plotting terror assaults, can also be attempting to focus on non secular locations in a bid to gas communal disharmony within the in any other case peaceable Jammu division.
The police had initially recovered six hand grenades from the arrested terror facilitators, who revealed that the grenades had been to be lobbed on non secular locations in Ari and Mendhar city areas of Poonch district.
The second restoration was produced from Dabi village the place two pistols, seventy bullets and two grenades had been seized.
“Handlers from across the border dropped the consignment in hidden patches near the LoC and these terror associates picked it up for further carriage into the hinterland,” a police assertion mentioned.
The complete restoration made thus far embrace 13 grenades, three pistols, 5 pistol magazines, 105 pistol bullets, 4 Pakistan made balloons, one flag of Tehreek ul Majahideen Jammu and Kashmir and 18 posters of J&Ok Ghaznavi Force.
