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| Pak arms, RDX again fly in again | | Second incident 11 days along IB | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 08:
Recklessly desperate to foment trouble in the winter capital city here on the eve of Republic Day, a consignment of arms and RDX was thrown into the border R S Pura area near here by a Pak-based militant this morning.
The incident is the second of its kind in less than a fortnight. On December 29 last, a bag containing three Chinese pistols, six magazines along with 221 rounds, two batteries of remote control, three detonators, three kg RDX and three lakh fake Indian Currency (IC) notes was recovered from near the BSF's Bakkarpur forward post in R S Pura.
Though no one was seen dropping arms and ammunition on December 29, today's consignment was thrown by a man, who had come from across the International Border (IB).
BSF sources said a patrol of 110 Bn of BSF saw a man coming close to the fencing near the Chawni outpost of Jabowal, R S Pura, from Pak side at about 8.25 am and then throwing five packets one after the other.
The patrol party fired at him, but it proved to be a futile exercise as the man managed to flee back to Pakistan unhurt.
Sources said he could not be hit because of the low visibility in dense fog which enveloped the border-belt in the morning. Soon thereafter, a BSG dog squad was pressed into service.
Sources said footprints of the man, suspected to a militant, led across the IB, which is about 50 metres from the fencing.
Search of the wheat field in which the packets had landed was later carried out by the troops.
A total of five packets were recovered. While two contained 1.8 kg black RDX, the other three had in them two pistols, four magazines, 70 rounds, one Pakistani mobile SIM and 30,000 IC notes.
The consignment was to be picked up by militant sympathisers on this side of the IB at a suitable time. The explosives could have been used to create trouble here on the eve of Republic Day, sources added.
Sources said said BSF this time opened the bag in the presence of its bomb disposal squad so that they were not booby-trapped. Last month,
BSF DIG O P Tanwar was killed in an IED blast near the IB in Samba sector, while few days back five BSF personnel were wounded in another IED blast in the same area.
Sources said the vigil had further been enhanced to avoid any chance of infiltration by the Pak-based militants.
After repeated failed infiltration bids, Pak-based militants had adopted this strategy to smuggle arms and ammunition into Jammu.
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