With the arrest of another over ground worker (OGW) belonging to the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba terror outfit , the joint team of security forces in Jammu & Kashmir have unearthed a sinister plot of Pakistan based handlers to target famous religious places and disturb peace in the region.
In the last four days, joint teams of security forces have averted three major terror strikes with the arrest of six terrorists and their associates and recovery of arms and ammunition.
According to the preliminary reports, handlers sitting across Pakistan were directing these OGW's to carry out terror strikes especially on famous religious places in order to disturb peace in the communally sensitive Jammu region.
According to a statement issued by the office of Inspector General of Police, Jammu range on Monday, “Police in Jammu district arrested one person linked with the proscribed terrorist organization LeT who was tasked by the handlers from across the border to carry out grenade blasts in the city at NHW bye pass road last evening”.
Police have identified the arrested person as Mohammad Ashraf S/O Ghulam Din R/O Lar, Mahore, Reasi A/P Peerbagh colony, Sunjawan, Jammu. Two hand grenades were recovered from his possession.
Official sources claimed the handler across the border was in contact with more terror operatives. Jammu police have launched a massive manhunt to track down their footprints to avert any other strike.
This is the second terror module linked with LeT which has been busted by the Jammu police in the past one week. A similar module linked with TRF (LeT) was busted earlier in which 02 persons namely Raees Ahmad Dar S/O Ghulam Hassan Dar R/O Churath, Devsar, Qazigund and Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh S/o Ghulam Ahmad Sheikh R/o Ashmuji, Kulgam were arrested with one Ak series rifle, one pistol, two magazines of AK rifle, 60 rounds of AK rifle and 15 rounds of pistol.
Another module was busted in Poonch on Sunday with the arrest of three militants of the newly floated JK Ghaznavi Force in Mendhar area who were planning to target religious places of minorities starting with the famous temple of Ari. Six grenades have so far been recovered from their possession. Apart from three arrests, two more persons have been detained for questioning. SSP Poonch Ramesh Angral said that the arrested militants were planning to carry out a grenade attack on a religious place at Ari in Mendhar at the behest of their Pakistani handler to disturb peace and communal amity in the district.
Some videos regarding tactics of grenade lobbying were also found in the mobile phones of the accused. SSP Poonch added that it is a major success for security forces as a major terror plot of militant strikes and inciting communal violence has been averted in Poonch.