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  • Three each IEDs, sticky bombs seized in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua

    By PTI

    JAMMU: Three each Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and sticky bombs, part of a consignment dropped by drones from across the border, were recovered on Saturday in Kathua, a senior police officer said.

    The recovery was made on the disclosure of a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist, who was arrested from Kathua on October 2, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said.

    According to police, the terrorist Zakir Hussain Bhat alias Umar Farooq of Billawar village was in multiple contacts with JeM operating from Pakistan through different social media apps and had received a consignment of IEDs and sticky bombs to carry out attacks in the Jammu region.

    “He was earlier convicted in a case and was lodged in Kot Bhalwal jail for 14 years and was released in 2019. He had developed relations with JeM terrorist Fareed who had returned to his country, Pakistan after serving his jail term in J&K,” the police said, He was planning to revive old terrorist activities in his area by roping in other old terrorists at the behest of Pakistan-based commanders, they added.

    A police official said the latest recovery was made from the Malhar village of Kathua and the search operation was underway at the time the last reports were received.

    “An operation was launched on the disclosure of the arrested terrorist and a total of six explosive devices – three each IEDs and three sticky bombs – were recovered so far,” he said.

    Earlier, a sticky bomb was recovered from Bhat at the time of his arrest.

    JAMMU: Three each Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and sticky bombs, part of a consignment dropped by drones from across the border, were recovered on Saturday in Kathua, a senior police officer said.

    The recovery was made on the disclosure of a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist, who was arrested from Kathua on October 2, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said.

    According to police, the terrorist Zakir Hussain Bhat alias Umar Farooq of Billawar village was in multiple contacts with JeM operating from Pakistan through different social media apps and had received a consignment of IEDs and sticky bombs to carry out attacks in the Jammu region.

    “He was earlier convicted in a case and was lodged in Kot Bhalwal jail for 14 years and was released in 2019. He had developed relations with JeM terrorist Fareed who had returned to his country, Pakistan after serving his jail term in J&K,” the police said, He was planning to revive old terrorist activities in his area by roping in other old terrorists at the behest of Pakistan-based commanders, they added.

    A police official said the latest recovery was made from the Malhar village of Kathua and the search operation was underway at the time the last reports were received.

    “An operation was launched on the disclosure of the arrested terrorist and a total of six explosive devices – three each IEDs and three sticky bombs – were recovered so far,” he said.

    Earlier, a sticky bomb was recovered from Bhat at the time of his arrest.

  • Maoists planning IED attacks to stop police camps in Chhattisgarh: Intel sources

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Maoists have recently conducted a recce of some police camps in Chhattisgarh and are planning to plant IEDs on the routes opted by security forces to dissuade the latter from constructing more security camps in Naxal areas, according to sources in intelligence agencies.

    A senior intelligence official told this newspaper that there are specific inputs that Maoist cadres of Jagargunda area committee are planning to carry out IED attacks on the routes taken by security forces to reach camps in Mokur and Tarem.

    The official, however, added that the forces are well prepared to defeat all nefarious designs of Naxals.

    Security forces are eyeing to set up as many as 24 Forward Operating Bases (FOBs), including ten in Chhattisgarh, seven in Maharashtra, six in Jharkhand and one in Odisha, before the year-end.

    As many as 22 jawans were killed and 31 personnel sustained injuries in April this year along the Sukma-Bijapur border in Chhattisgarh during an encounter with Naxals.

    Soon after the incident, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said the Maoists attacked out of desperation to counter new security camps opened in their core areas.

    Shah said in the last five-six years, the central and state governments together achieved success in setting up camps of security forces in the interior areas.

    “Both the central and state governments have been jointly making inroads (into Maoist strongholds). Therefore, such incidents come to fore out of their (Maoists) frustration,” the home minister had said.

    There has been a steep decline in violence levels as well as the geographical spread of Left-wing extremism in the country.

    The number of affected districts identified under the security-related expenditure (SRE) scheme came down to 70 in July 2021 from 126 in April 2018.