Sunjwan encounter: Two individuals who transported terrorists from border arrested

By PTI

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested two individuals for allegedly transporting the 2 JeM terrorists who had been killed in an encounter in Sunjwan right here, officers stated on Sunday.

Driver Bilal Ahmad Wagay and his helper Ishfaq Chopan had been nabbed from Anantnag district of south Kashmir. Earlier, the police had arrested one individual and detained one other in reference to the encounter case.

Wagey and Chopan are accused of ferrying the 2 Pashtu-speaking Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists, both from Pakistan or Afghanistan, from Supwal in Samba district, after their infiltration from throughout the border, to Sunjwan in Jammu a day earlier than the encounter.

Both the terrorists, geared up with suicide vests and complicated weapons, had been killed within the encounter on Friday, averting a significant suicide assault within the metropolis.

An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was additionally killed when the terrorists attacked a bus earlier than being engaged by the safety forces.

Nine safety personnel, together with two policemen, had been additionally injured within the incident that came about simply two days forward of the scheduled go to of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.

The officers stated Wagay and his helper had left for Kashmir after dropping the terrorists in Sunjwan.

“They were arrested in a late-night operation from Kokernag on Saturday and are being questioned,” an official stated.

Addressing a press convention on Saturday night, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh introduced a breakthrough within the case and stated whereas two individuals had been nabbed, efforts had been on to arrest two others, together with Wagay. Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh of Tral was the primary individual to be arrested within the case.

Mohammad Iqbal Rather of Malwan village of Kulgam in whose residence the terrorists stayed at Jallalabad locality of Sunjwan was detained on the disclosure of Sheikh.

Rather has not been formally arrested within the case to this point.

“The analysis of mobile tower data as well as internet data usage of the general area led to suspicion on a person by the name of Bilal Ahmed Beig (Wagay) of south Kashmir’s Kokarnag who had received the terrorists on the border at Supwal in Samba district and brought them to Jallalabad area before handing them to Sheikh,” the Jammu police chief had stated.

Sheikh’s brother Asif — a key conspirator within the case — continues to be at massive and efforts are on to nab him, the officers stated.

After the encounter, police groups labored tirelessly to determine the identification of the conspirators who had been behind the plan to hold out a suicide assault in Jammu.

According to the ADGP, Sheikh and his brother Asif are deeply concerned with terrorists of JeM.

“Asif created a telegram ID referred to as ‘Pagal Jamaat’ (Mad group) for Sheikh and likewise offered him with a cell phone with a SIM card which was used to determine contact with a JeM commander in Pakistan by the identify of ‘Veer’, his telegram identification,’ Singh stated.

Wagay had set out on the directions of a JeM commander from Kashmir’s Pulwama at 10 am on April 20 and reached Jammu within the night night.

“He stayed at Transport Nagar and at around 12 midnight, he sets out for Sapwal (border) in Samba and picked up two terrorists of JeM. They board a medium size truck loaded with empty vegetable crates and neatly created a cavity among the crates for hiding the terrorists,” he stated.

They reached Jallalabad locality of Sunjwan round 2.30 am. Sheikh obtained the terrorists and took them to a home in Jallalabad the place they stayed and likewise mentioned their plans with their handlers throughout the border, he stated.

The plan was to take them to the closest safety base and inflict most casualties on the safety forces to discourage the VVIP go to, the ADGP stated, referring to the go to of Prime Minister Modi to Palli Panchayat in Samba on Sunday.