Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 29: Police today arrested a hybrid militant of Al-Badr outfit in Srinagar who was allegedly involved in grenade throwing incidents.
A police spokesman said that acting on specific intelligence, a small team of Srinagar Police arrested a hybrid militant linked with proscribed militant outfit Al-Badr identified as Arfat Yusuf son of Mohammad Yusuf Khan, resident of Rajpora Pulwama from Batamaloo area of Srinagar.
The police spokesman further stated that incriminating materials along with arms and ammunition including a pistol, 20 live rounds and two magazines have been recovered from his possession.
He said that the preliminary investigation revealed that he has been involved in militant related activities in South Kashmir Range and had come to Srinagar with the nefarious designs and was arrested before he could execute any militant attack.
“Pertinent to mention here that he was involved in throwing grenades twice on security forces, first time on a CRPF Vehicle in Rajpora and second time at CRPF/RR Camp at Hawal, Rajpora Pulwama (FIR number 61/22 dated 14/08/2022 already registered). Besides throwing grenades, he was involved in pasting posters on 26/03/2023 and 10/03/2023 of Lone wolf warrior. Several militancy crime cases have already been registered against him,” he said.
A case (FIR number 94/2023 Under Sections 13, 23 of ULAP Act and 7/25 of IA Act) has been registered at Police Station Batamaloo.
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