A search operation was initiated, acting on a specific intelligence input that terrorists have planted an IED on the New-Srinagar road in the Wanpora area.
SRINAGAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargehseet against three accused persons in connection with the Bhatindi IED recovery case, officials said Thursday.
Jammu: Security personnel stand guard at Jammu-Pathankot National Highway
Two more suspected terrorists were arrested on Friday in connection with the recent recovery of a powerful improvised explosive device (IED), police said. On June 27, Nadeem-ul-Haq, a resident of Banihal, was arrested with 5.5 kgs of IED from Bhatindi area in the outskirts of the city. With this, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba s (LeT) plan to trigger an explosion at a crowded place was averted. Following sustained interrogation of the accused from whose possession IED was earlier recovered, names of two more persons were revealed, a police spokesperson said.
Jammu police rounded up both the accused Nadeem Ayoub Rather of Shopian and Talib-ur-Rehman of Banihal who, during questioning, confessed their involvement and that they acted on the directions of their handler.