An Improvised explosive device (IED) planted inside a pressure cooker was detected by the members of the road opening party of the Indian Army near Manjakote along the Jammu Poonch highway early wednesday morning.
Four days ago, a nursing student,identified as Suhail from Pulwama was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police after an IED weighing 6.5 kgs was recovered from his bag near the bus stand area in Jammu. Handlers belonging to Al-Badr had tasked him to trigger a blast at one of the busy locations in Jammu.
Both these recoveries were made close on the heels of arrest of two top ranking terrorists of Lashkar-e- Mustafa and The Resistance Front in Jammu.
The traffic on the busy road was halted from both the sides and teams of bomb disposal squad of the Indian army from a nearby camp were rushed to the spot to detonate the IED. "This morning, a road opening patrol (ROP) of the army found a suspicious object along the highway near Manjakote. Soon, traffic was controlled on the highway and a bomb disposal squad was called in," said Rajouri SSP, Chandan Kohli.
The suspected material packed in a fruit packing box was later destroyed through a controlled explosion, he added. Further investigation is going on in the case registered at Manjakote police station under relevant sections of law.