Third recovery from JKGF module
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 3: Security forces today recovered a cache of arms and ammunition near the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district.
This was the third round of recovery of arms and ammunition in the district following the busting of a three-member module of Jammu and Kashmir Gazanavi Force (JKGF).
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Poonch, Ramesh Angral told the Excelsior that the fresh recovery has been made during a search and cordon operation from Dabbi village along the LoC in Balakote sector of Mendhar.
The recovery include one pistol, three magazines, 35 bullets and five hand grenades, he said.
Three militant associates were arrested in Balakote area on December 28 and six hand grenades were recovered from them.
“During sustained interrogation of the trio, some more vital clues were developed after which police team along with Army launched an operation in Dabbi village located ahead of LoC fence in Balakote from where the consignment of arms, ammunition and grenades have been recovered this morning,” the SSP said.
He said this is the third recovery under this module of militant associates busted in the LoC area.
Angral said Jammu and Kashmir Gazanavi Force is the militant outfit which was operating this module from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
“Jammu and Kashmir Gazanavi Force is trying to carry out militant activities and is attempting to target religious places with an aim to trigger communal tension in Jammu region,” he said.
Reports said in the first recovery of six hand grenades that was made from the arrested three persons, it is evident that grenades were to be lobbed on religious places in Ari and Mendhar town areas of Poonch district.
The second recovery was made from Dabi village wherein two pistols, 70 bullets and two grenades were recovered.
“The handlers from across (the border) used to drop the consignment in hidden patches right in front of Indian locations and these arrested militant associates then managed to pick it up for further carriage in hinterland,” reports said.
The total recovery made so far include 13 grenades, three pistols, five magazines, 105 rounds, four Pakistan made balloons, one Tehreek ul Majahideen terror group’s flag and 18 posters of J&K Gazanavi Force.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan army today violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked firing and intense mortar shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district.
The firing and shelling from across the border in Mendhar sector started at 4.15 pm, prompting a befitting retaliation by the Indian Army, the spokesman said.
He said the exchange of fire lasted about an hour.
There was no report of any damage on the Indian side, the spokesman said.
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