JAMMU: J&Okay Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a module of the proscribed Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Drive (JKGF) — a shadow outfit of Jaish-e-Mohammad — in Poonch district and solved a number of previous grenade assaults with the arrest of two JKGF terrorists.
At a press convention, ADGP (Jammu Zone) Anand Jain termed the dual arrest a “very massive achievement” for safety businesses.He stated the JKGF duo was “half of a bigger conspiracy and tried to unfold terror in Poonch” by finishing up grenade assaults at a number of locations — together with a temple, a gurdwara, an Military camp and a hospital — to disturb peace and communal concord within the area.
The primary arrest got here Friday afternoon in Poonch’s Surankote when a joint workforce of safety forces apprehended Abdul Aziz, a resident of Hari village, Surankote, with two grenades at a checkpoint in Dundak space. After interrogation, police recovered one other grenade from Abdul’s residence and later that night, arrested his aide Manwar Hussain, additionally from Hari village, with a pistol, {a magazine} and 10 rounds.
With the arrest of those two terrorists — who had hyperlinks throughout the border — all 5 circumstances of grenade assaults that occurred since Nov 2023 have been solved, the ADGP stated Saturday. Abdul was concerned in lobbing grenades at a Shiva temple in Surankote on Nov 15, 2023; Gurdwara Mahant Sahib in Poonch on March 26, 2024; an Military sentry publish in Poonch’s Kamsar in June 2024 and a college floor close to a CRPF sentry publish on Aug 14, 2024. Hussain, in the meantime, had thrown a grenade close to the district hospital quarters on July 18, 2024, police stated.
Questioning of the terrorists has thus far revealed that they’d obtained 4 consignments of arms, ammunition and Rs 1.5 lakh money from their cross-border handlers, the ADGP said, including that the duo was skilled in dealing with pistols and had fired just a few rounds in forested areas for follow. The duo additionally pasted anti-national posters at totally different places in Surankote, together with govt excessive colleges in Hari, Dhundak, Sanai, Eidgah-Hari and different adjoining areas. These posters have been printed at Hussain’s home and pasted in Aug final 12 months on the instructions of their handler to create concern among the many public, police stated.
Final month, one other member of this module, Mohd Shabir, a resident of Daryala, was arrested on Sept 12 with a big amount of explosives. Abdul had equipped the explosives to him, police stated.
“This operation marks an important step in dismantling terror networks, as each people have been concerned in orchestrating terror actions, together with grenade assaults on spiritual websites and hospitals, terror financing, anti-national propaganda, and arms smuggling,” Defence PRO Lt Col Suneel Bartwal stated, including: “This success follows final month’s arrest of one other affiliate, underscoring the relentless efforts of the Indian Military and safety forces to make sure peace and stability within the area.”
