Precious Kashmir News
Sopore, June 24 : The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said that it solved a case of grenade incident in Police-Post Putkha and arrested four over-ground-workers (OGW) of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit in this regard.
Police have solved a militancy case pertaining to a grenade attack on Police-Post Putkha last month, by arresting four militant associates of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit.
In a statement a police spokesman said , “On specific information regarding presence of LeT militants in general area Putkha Muqam/Chanpora Athoora , PC Sopore alongwith 52RR and CRPF launched multiple search operations simultaneously at different locations at Muqam Putkha and Chanpora Athoora and apprehended 4 LET militant associates.”
The arrested militant associates were identified as Irfan Ahmed Mir son of Mohammad Maqbool Mir resident of Putkha, Irfan Ahmed Khan son of Gulam Mohammad Khan of Putkha, Qaiser Rehman Khan son of Abdul Rehman Khan of Putkha and Suhail Ahmed Ganie son of Gulam Mohammad Ganie of Chanpora, Athoora.
The police statement said, “During their sustained interrogation all confessed to the grenade attack on Police Post Putkha on directions of LeT militants LT Fayaz Ahmed War @Umar and FT @Usman as a test for them to join militant ranks. Moreover all were in touch with militants through different social media applications.”
The police statement further said that all four have been arrested in grenade attack case FIR No 48/2020 U/S 307, 7/27 IPC , 16 ULAP Act P/S Tarzoo by Sopore Police and further investigation into case is going on the statement reads.