Security forces averted a mishap on Monday by timely detecting a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) near Kallar chowk along Jammu-Poonch highway in frontier Rajouri district.
According to spokesman of the J&K Police, “a road opening party (ROP) of the Army first detected the suspected IED lying near Kallar Chowk alongside the highway that connects Rajouri district with Jammu”.
Police spokesman said, “during close examination, a bottle filled with liquid material and a polybag filled with some solid material was found. The ROP immediately flashed an alert and traffic was halted on both sides of the road to prevent any untoward incident”.
“After senior army and police officers, took stock of the situation, army’s bomb disposal squad launched its operation following SOP and after hour long exercise, the said suspected IED material was destroyed on the spot thereby averting any possible mishap”, police spokesman added. Traffic on the busy road was restored to clear the rush of stranded vehicles.
Senior superintendent of police, Rajouri, Yougal Manhas said that timely action by the alert jawans of army ROP averted any untoward incident.
He also clarified that during initial investigation of the matter, it has come to fore that no banned explosive material was present in the suspicious object found along highway in Rajouri.
“It seems that some miscreant placed a suspicious object in a disintegrated form to give it the shape of an IED to create social disorder”, he added.