SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police along with security forces on Thursday arrested a militant associate of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit and recovered incriminating materials, arms and ammunition from his possession in the Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
“On a specific input of terrorist movement in Uri kamalkoot mandayan area, a joint patrolling was carried out at General area of kamalkoot mandayan by Baramulla Police and Army 8 RR,” a Police spokesperson said, adding that during patrolling suspicious movement of one person coming towards the patrolling party by foot was observed.
“While seeing the police party and security forces, the suspect person tried to flee from the spot but the alert patrolling party apprehended him tactfully. During preliminary questioning, he was identified as Farooq Ahmed khokar S/O Salamdin Khokar R/O Kalsi Kamalkoot,” he said.
“During his search 1 pistol, 2 magazines and 20 pistol rounds were recovered from his possession,” the police said. “In this regard, a case under sections UA (P) and Arms Act has been registered in PS URI and investigation has been taken up,” it added.
