After a long haul, a joint team of security forces, early Friday morning, gunned down an ‘unidentified’ terrorist in the Chatroo forest area of Kishtwar district.
Till the time of filing the report, the anti-terror operation launched since Wednesday evening was continuing to hunt down a few other members of the terrorist group.
Nagrota-based White Knight Corps in a post on X confirmed the elimination of one terrorist so far, maintaining that the anti-terror operations were going on despite adverse weather and hostile terrain.
“Based on specific intelligence, a joint search and destroy operation along with J&K Police was launched on 09 Apr in the Chhatru forest area of Kishtwar. Contact was established late evening on the same day. The terrorists were effectively engaged, and a firefight ensued. One terrorist has thus far been neutralised. Despite hostile terrain & adverse weather, relentless operations by our brave soldiers continue”.
The elite Para Commandos of the Indian army, along with troops of the Special Operations group of J&K police, and other paramilitary forces, have been combing the adjoining hilly area in the region to block the escape routes of terrorists hiding in the area. The drone cameras. helicopters, other surveillance equipment and sniffer dogs have been assisting the ground forces to zero in on the location of the terrorists.
DIG Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban range, Shridhar Patil, late Friday evening, told reporters, the anti-terror operations are going on, and so far only one terrorist has been neutralised, and a few more are still trapped. In the neighbouring Udhampur district, security forces were also searching for the footprints of terrorists who managed to give the slip after they came on the radar of the security forces in the Joffer Marta area of Ramnagar on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the security grid along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH44) has been further beefed-up, and additional security checkpoints have been activated to prevent any targeted strike on the security forces.
