SRINAGAR: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a hybrid Lashkar-i-Toiba militant in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Quoting a police spokesman news agency GNS reported that the accused Tawheed Ahmad Haroon son of Late Khazir Mohammad resident of Delina Ghat, Baramulla was apprehended by a joint team of Baramulla Police, Army 46 RR, 53 Bn CRPF and 2nd Bn SSB at a checkpoint near Juhama crossing Baramulla.
A pistol, pistol magazine, and nine live rounds of a 9 mm pistol were recovered from his possession, police said. It said that the militant obtained the arms and ammunition “with intent to carry out terrorist activities in Baramulla and its adjacent areas”.
A case under sections of Arms & UA (P) Act has been registered in Police Station Baramulla and an investigation taken up.
