Srinagar/Rajouri: Security forces on Wednesday arrested two “hybrid terrorists” of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit from Baramulla district of north Kashmir, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces established a mobile vehicle check point at Azadgunj in Baramulla town.
The two suspects tried to flee after noticing the checkpoint, a police official said.
“The suspects were apprehended tactfully. During their personal search, one pistol, one pistol magazine, four pistol rounds and one grenade were recovered from them and were taken into custody immediately,” the official said.
He said the two were identified as Faisal Majeed Ganie, son of Abdul Majeed, resident of Bungalow Bagh Baramulla, and Nourul Kamran Ganie, son of Mohammad Akbar Ganie, resident of Bagh-e-Islam Old Town Baramulla.
“Preliminary investigations have revealed that the individuals are hybrid terrorists and are affiliated with banned terrorist organisation LeT. They had collected the arms and ammunition for carrying out terrorist activities in Baramulla town ahead of Independence Day,” the official said.
“Hybrid terrorists” is a term coined by police for those who carry out attacks and then slip back into their routine lives.
Meanwhile, one overground worker of terror outfit has been detained under the Public Safety Act in Rajouri district, police said on Wednesday.
Mohammad Altaf is the fifth overground worker to be detained in the border district in the past two months under the stringent administrative law that allows detention without charge or trial for up to two years in some cases, a police official said.
Altaf, a resident of Gadyog village in Khawas, was detained on the orders of the Rajouri district magistrate after the police prepared a written dossier on him, he said.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Rajouri) Amritpal Singh said the preventive detention of five notorious overground workers in the past two months have been made with the aim to check their unlawful acts of working for terror outfits.
In a separate case, a suspected criminal was arrested and booked under the Public Safety Act in Jammu.
Tajinder Singh alias Jinda, a resident of Simbal camp in RS Pura, was wanted in multiple cases registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Arms Act, the police said.
He was arrested on the basis of specific information from Miran Sahib and shifted to Central Jail Jammu, Kotbhalwal, under the Public Safety Act, the police said.
