Militant hideout busted in Doda, huge hauls of arms recovered | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 9: In a joint search operation, the security forces today busted a militant hideout and recovered a haul of arms and ammunition which included UBGL grenade, hand grenades and AK ammunition from a remote area of district Doda of Jammu region. According to official spokesperson, "Based on specific intelligence inputs about presence of a militant hideout in the general forest belt of Bharat region of Doda District, a joint operation by Dharmund based Delta Force and Jammu and Kashmir Police was launched today." "The troops during the joint operation busted a militant hideout and recovered a huge haul of arms and ammunition from Bharat Ridge in Doda district," official spokesman here said. "War like store recovered from the hide out busted today included one rifle .303, two Chinese Pistols, one sniper rifle .315, one country made pistol, two rifle 12 bore along with two magazines of AK-47, three magazines of Chinese pistol, 324 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, nine sniper rounds, five hand grenades, four grenades RPG, 15 grenade UBGL and several other logistic stores were recovered, he added. He said that the recovery of cache shall result in defeating the nefarious designs of the militants of derailing the peace and stability of the region especially in view of the ongoing Assembly Elections in J&K. |
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