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| Red alert sounded in Jammu | | 4 ultras sneak in after exchange of fire on IB | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 17: In a heightened security environment in view of the ensuing festival season, red alert was tonight sounded across the city and its outskirts after reports of a militant infiltration through International Border. A massive hunt was launched late in the evening as Police suspected a group of four militants having sneaked in even as border guards BSF was tight lipped over the issue.
Sources said that at around 6PM Thursday a Border Security Force was on patrol in Nikowal sub-sector of Pargwal sector when it came under fire from other side of the International Border.
The fire was effectively retaliated but in the exchange two BSF jawans were injured. Amidst panic and state of high alert, the injured jawans were rushed to the Government Medical College here. The injured jawans have been identified as Rajinder and Mandeep Gogi, both from Rajasthan. They are reported to have sustained deep bullet injuries and were under treatment.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Manohar Singh confirmed to Early Times about possibility of at least four militants having sneaked in under the cover of fire. He said that alert has been sounded across the region and Police and other security forces have been asked to remain vigilant. SP Jammu Rural Manohar Lal rushed to the border area and was camping there to supervise the search operation.
This fresh case of infiltration has come at a time when defence sources have already been suggesting that around 300 terrorists are waiting across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for an opportunity to infiltrate into India, prompting the Army to strengthen its anti-insurgency security grid.
‘The terrorists have been spotted moving in batches from place to place along the LoC, apparently in search of vulnerable spots from where they could infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, Defence Ministry sources said earlier in the today.
The attempt was to push in as many terrorists as possible before the onset of winter when snowfall will make the mountainous terrains impregnable, the sources said.
"The next two months are crucial," they said, expecting a jump in the infiltration attempts. In the recent times, there have been a number of attempts at infiltration, many times accompanied by firing from across the LoC to provide cover to such bids.
Security forces have killed at least 25 terrorists while foiling these infiltration attempts last month and these encounters took place at points along the LoC.
Sources also mentioned that even the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an address to a conference of state police chiefs on Tuesday, had termed as worrisome secessionists and militant groups in Kashmir making common cause with "outside elements" and noted that infiltration across the LoC was going up.
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