Militant hideout busted, arms and ammunition recovered

Jammu/Rajouri (The Stellar News), Anil Bhardwaj: Busting a militant hideout in forest area near Gambhir Mughlan, Jammu and Kashmir police and Indian Army’s 38 Rashtriya Rifles recovered arms, ammunition and explosive that were kept in the hideout in past years.

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Senior Superintendent of Police Rajouri Chandan Kohli said that based on a specific information, joint parties of J&K police and 38 RR headed by Deputy SP PC (OPs) Imtiaz Ahmed, SDPO Manjakote Nisar Khoja and SHO Manjakote Pankaj Sharma alongwith army officers launched an operation in dense forest area near Gambhir Mughlan and found a hideout that was created beneath the forest surface using stones. 02 automatic AK47 rifles, 02 AK magazines, 270 bullets of AK, 02 Chinese pistol, 02 pistol magazines, 75 Pika rounds, 12 Blank rounds, 10 Detonators and 5-6 Kilograms of Explosive material have been recovered from the hideout.

He added that searches in the area are going on and police have also taken up investigation of the case after registration of FIR in Manjakote police station under relevant sections of law.

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