The encounters exposed the infiltration route, hunting for fugitive terrorists: Kathua SSP | Bharat News

Jammu: Recent encounters in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir not only highlighted the route used by Pakistani terrorists to infiltrate India from the international border, but also met a large -scale tragedy by reducing the plan of terrorist organizations to hold a big strike in the union region, Kathua SSP Shobit said.
The traditional route of infiltration was plugged and the terrorists “will not be able to reuse the route”, SSP Saxena said while addressing a press conference in Rajbagh. He said that the recovery of weapons and a huge cash of sophisticated gadgets from the slain terrorists had failed their plan to execute fatal attacks in J&K. Some amounts of seized heroin also indicated that they were using drugs.
In recovery, two AK-56 rifles, one M4 rifle, 10 AK-56 magazine, two M4 magazine, of one Aak-R 640 thermal vision, a trigicon acog vision, eight Chinese grenade, three ⁠VHF helical antennas, and two extendable antennas, and two extendable antennas can improve. “This revealed that he had come with a sick intentions and was ready to stay for a long time,” the SSP said.
Since 23 March, Kathua saw four encounters between security forces and intruders, when the terrorists were first engaged in a gun fight in Sanyal village of Hiranagar area which lasted for more than an hour. The terrorists, however, managed to escape from Cordon. Since many agencies continued to compete with the region and the operation expanded to other places, on 27 March, another encounter took place in Safian One, in which four policemen were killed by fugitives. Two terrorists were also shot dead in fire.
The SSP told reporters that the security forces were monitoring the remaining fugitives, it is believed that it is a group of three to four terrorists. “We are confident of tracking and neutralizing them soon,” he said. He said that a tight security grid was the place from Kathua district as well as border villages to Nindland. He appreciated the support and joint efforts of the security forces engaged in anti -terrorism operations, appreciating the cooperation of the local people.
Responding to a question about terrorist sympathy and action against overground workers, SSP Saxena said that 30 suspects were still booked in the district under the Public Safety Act to provide logistic assistance to the terrorists.