The Jammu Police on Wednesday busted a terror module of Jaish-e-Mohammad and arrested three operatives from the Narwal area recovering a rich haul of arms and ammunition, said a senior police officer.
“During the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, a police party of Trikuta Nagar police station was clearing the traffic on the national highway. During the exercise an oil tanker bearing registration number JK02BF/ 2965 stationed at Narwal was asked to move forward,” said the officer.
However, the same truck stopped near Environmental Park on Narwal-Sidhra bye-pass road.
The patrolling party again asked the truck driver to move forward but he took a U-turn and again parked the truck at the initial point at Narwal.
“On questioning the driver, he along with two of his associates entered into a scuffle with the police party. On this, they were taken to the police station and an FIR number 284 under section 353 of the IPC was registered at Bahu Fort police station,” said the officer.
They were identified as driver Mohammad Yaseen of Puchil Pampora, Farhan Farooq and Farooq Ahmed of Drangbal Pampore.
{{/usCountry}}They were identified as driver Mohammad Yaseen of Puchil Pampora, Farhan Farooq and Farooq Ahmed of Drangbal Pampore.
{{/usCountry}}After the legal formalities, a signal was sent to the police stations of the accused to know their involvement in other cases, if any and to know their antecedents.
“The counterparts informed that driver Mohammad Yaseen is involved in a UAPA case in Awantipore. He is also a close associate of JeM as per the report of the police station concerned. On this, we started questioning them about the reason behind their unusual behaviour last night and to know their association with the terrorists, if any,” said the officer.
After sustained interrogation, the driver Yaseen disclosed that they had come to Jammu to pick up weapons on the instructions of Shahbaaz, a handler of JeM, who is in Pakistan and subsequently had to hand over the weapons to a terrorist in Valley.
“He (Yaseen) also confessed that he has concealed a consignment of arms and ammunition in the oil tanker. Upon this, the tanker was again searched in presence of a magistrate, and we recovered three AK-56 rifles, one pistol, nine magazines, 191 rounds of ammunition and six grenades,” he said.