Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 12: Police and Army today busted a militant hideout in the forest area of Bandipora district in North Kashmir and recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives.
Police sources said that acting on inputs about a forest militant hideout, a joint team of police and 14 Rashtriya Rifles of counter insurgency Kilo Force launched a search operation in Kota forest area of Bandipora and recovered huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosive material.
The arms, ammunition and explosive material recovered include 4 AK Assault Rifles, 70 AK magazines, 1200 AK rounds, 8 anti-tank grenades, 8 shells of automatic grenade launcher, 5 improvised explosive devices, 4 UBGLs and 90 UBGL grenades, 33 hand grenades, 5 RPG rounds, two 82-mm mortar shells, 45 detonators, 16 pika rounds and 160 rounds of sniper rifle ammunition.
This is one of the largest caches of arms and ammunition recovered from Kashmir in recent years. This is thought to be a major success for the security forces in North Kashmir against the militants.
This is the largest cache of arms and ammunition recovered after last year’s recovery forest area of Darashpora in Handwara district of Kupwara last year. The recovered arms and ammunition in last year in October included 10 AK-56 rifles, one AK-47 rifle, one-Pica Rifle, 12 RGP rounds, 12 Chinese Grenade, 447 AK47 rounds, 40 Pika rounds and 5 AK 47 magazines.
The success has been achieved at the time when militants are trying to infiltrate into Kashmir in large numbers and Army along the Line of Control (LoC) has been foiling their attempts.
Army said that militants this year will make more attempts of infiltration after the successes achieved by the security forces against them in Kashmir valley by killing their top commanders during past two years.
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