Jammu January, 18 (Vijay Kumar) – A major tragedy was averted by Kishtwar Police by timely recovering of half dozen Anti Tank Rifle Grenades and consignments of arms and ammunition from a hideout of terrorist in the forest area of Pyas in Kishtwar of Jammu region on Monday..
Police said that Kishtwar Police busted a dump of hard core terrorists of banned outfit of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit in militancy prone area of Pyas Chhichha and recovered huge cache of deadly explosive material Grenades and communication wireless sets. This successful operation against militancy related activities was launched by a Police party headed by Dy. Superintendent of Police Shri Mohan Lal Thakur SDPO Atholi (Kishtwar) under the supervision of Dr. M.Haseeb Mughal SP Kishtwar during the intervening night of January 17 & 18,
Giving details Dr. Mohd Haseeb Mughal district SP said that different police parties under SDPO’s of district Police Kishtwar have been given challenging task of getting hard intelligence for successful anti militancy operations especially in view of alarming inputs of terrorists in present security scenario. Consequently DYSP alongiwth his operational party achieved a major breakthrough in locating the major dump of terrorists in the forest area of Pyas and huge cache of recovery which includes 06 Nos. Anti Tank rifle grenades, 06 Wireless sets, 02 UBGL Grenades ,02 HE Grenades was recovered.
In order to intensify their militancy related activities LeT and other banned outfits are trying to dump aforesaid dangerous type of grenades in the natural caves of the far-flung areas of hilly district in furtherance of their criminal conspiracy of proxy war against nation. It has come up that aforesaid Anti Tank and above consignment that they are bent upon to strengthen their cards and destroying peace in the area.
The above recovery has given a serious set back to terrorist’s outfits and their nefarious designs. . A case under relevant sections of explosive substance Act ,Arms Act has been registered against the terrorists at Police Station Kishtwar.
Meanwhile an encounter took place between Police, 39-RR and militants at Sei Kathyua Narol Mendhar, Poonch of J&K in which commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit namely Dand resident of PoK got killed.
One AK 47 rifle, three magazines, one I com set, one pouch, one mobile, two Sims Aircel and Airtel, one JeM stamp, Rs. 1030 of Indian currency, photos of Osama Bin Laden and literature of JeM were recovered from the encounter site.