J&Okay: LeT operative held, hands cache seized in Reasi dist after years

Jammu and Kashmir Police and safety forces arrested an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliate in Reasi district’s Mahore the city in a joint operation and claimed to have seized an enormous amount of hands and ammunition, together with Rocket Propelled Gun (RPG) and mortars, amongst others.

Hands haul at this kind of stage comes within the district after six years. The improvement comes simply prior to the three-day Shiv Khori mela, held at the instance of Maha Shivratri, starting March 10.

The police recognized the arrested individual as Reyaz Ahmed, 21 – he used to be arrested on Friday. In keeping with police, all through wondering within the presence of an government Justice of the Peace, Reyaz disclosed that he had hidden the hands and ammunition at a hideout between Makhidhar and Higher Shikari ridge of Mahore tehsil.

A seek operation through the police and Military used to be introduced due to this fact and two underneath barrel grenade launchers (UBGL) and mortar grenade launcher (MGL), 5 grenades, one RPG, 3 mortar bombs, 80 rounds of INSAS, sniper and AK rifles, but even so explosive subject material, have been recovered, the police mentioned. Reasi’s Superintendent of Police Surjeet Bhagat mentioned the seizure additionally integrated one AK-47 rifle with 22 magazines and 150 cartridges, one rocket launcher, 16 UBGL grenades, 4 hand grenades, and two very top frequency (VHF) radio units with antennas.

The cache used to be to be dropped at an individual from Gool, in adjacent Ramban district, Bhagat mentioned. It used to be a part of the consignment despatched through LeT ‘commander’ Khobaib, a resident of Doda who’s at the moment primarily based in Pakistan, the SP added.

On February 18, the police and safety forces had seized an AK 47 rifle in conjunction with a sealed field of ammunition, one self loading rifle (SLR), one .303 bolt rifle and two Chinese language pistols in conjunction with magazines and ammunition from Makhidhar forests. Those have been additionally despatched through Khobaib, consistent with the police.

With those large-scale seizures, the police mentioned a plan to restore militancy in Pir Panjal levels, particularly forward of the Amarnath yatra and Budha Amarnath yatra to Mandi, in Poonch district of Jammu department, has been foiled.