STATE TIMES NEWS
Poonch: Police in the frontier district of Poonch have arrested a suspected militant who had crossed over to the Indian side from Nepal along with his wife and three children.
“Yes we have made the arrest, a militant along with his family has been arrested. As the investigations are on right now we won’t be able to divulge further details,” SSP, Poonch J.S Johar said.
Abdul Ganie, a resident of Marota village under Suronkote Tehsil was arrested late last night along with his wife who is a Pakistani national and his three children, a source privy to the investigation said.
“Ganie had crossed over to the Pakistani side for arms and ammunition training in the year 2000 and this year he returned along with his wife and three children via Nepal,” he said.
Cases under various sections have been registered against him and investigation initiated to ascertain the reason of his return, the SSP said.
Meanwhile, security forces have busted a militant hideout and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from Panasa Forest area of Reasi District.
“Based on specific inputs about the presence of arms and ammunition, troops of Talwara-based Rashtriya Rifles under Uniform Force based at Reasi, in a joint operation with JK police launched a search operation,” Jammu-based defence spokesman Lt Col Manish Mehta said.
He said that the troops conducted a thorough search of the entire forested area and found the hideout in Panasa Forest.
The cache included one AK-56 rifle, four magazines of AK-56 rifle, one pistol, one magazine of pistol, one Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launcher, 46 cartridges of ammunition AK-56, nine fired cases of ammunition AK-56 and one handheld radio set.
“The timely recovery of the arms and ammunition has thwarted any untoward incident in the area,” he said.