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| 2 CRPF troopers killed in Valley | | HUJI’s Jammu Chief arrested | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 22: A top leader of the militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) has been arrested in this Jammu and Kashmir winter capital, just two days before the seventh and final round of polling in the state.
Faizal Suhail, chief of the HuJI in Jammu region, was arrested following a raid in Jammu city late Sunday, police said.
Meanwhile, a high alert was sounded on Monday in Jammu in the run-up to the seventh and last phase of assembly polls scheduled for December 24, a top police officer said.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) (Jammu) K Rajendra Kumar said that a high alert has been sounded in Jammu and "searches are being carried out at all checkposts and hotels."
Kumar added that some suspects have been rounded-up by the police and are being questioned.
The raid was conducted by a joint team of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Jammu police, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Jammu, Manohar Singh, disclosed without naming the locality.
Suhail, said to be a resident of Chhatroo in mountainous Kishtwar district, "is involved in a number of militancy related incidents including killing of five personnel of Border Roads Organisation near Kishtwar in June this year", Singh added.
"We are interrogating this militant but in all probability his presence in Jammu at this point in time indicates his plans to disrupt elections." A pistol and a grenade have been recovered from Suhail.
With just two days before the last phase of elections in the state, security in the region has been intensified. Thirteen assembly seats in and around Jammu city as well as eight seats in Srinagar go to the polls on Christmas Eve.
Meanwhile, two days ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly poll, militants on Monday shot dead two CRPF jawans and fled with their service rifles in Baramulla district.
Militants sprayed bullets on constables Inderjeet Singh and S S Budhria from a point blank range in Iqbal Market near the main bus stand in Sopore town, official sources said.
Both were killed instantly, they said adding the ultras took away their rifles before fleeing.
The shooting sparked panic in the North Kashmir township, which was immediately cordoned off by security forces to apprehend the attackers. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident, the first major strike by ultras in recent months, took place at a time when security had been beefed up across the state to ensure peaceful polling in the last phase.
As many as 21 constituencies are going to polls in the last lap on December 24.
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