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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 14: After exfiltration by Maj Irfan, Mohammad Khaliq and Mohammad Salim from Jammu borders about 12 years back, the successful crossing over to Pak by three top militants, again from the J&K borders, a month or so back, showed that the "highly-guarded" borders here were still porous at some places.
Irfan, Khaliq and Salim were reported to have exfiltrated from Kanhachak sector after breaking the "high-security" Kot-Bhalwal jail in 1998. It rained heavily that night.
On the same night, some youth, supporting long hair, had opened indiscriminate fire from AK rifles on DSP Swatantra Arora, who was SHO, Trikuta Nagar police station, that time, at Dumi Malpur where he had gone in search for a murder accused. Dumi Malpur falls between Kot-Bhalwal jail and Kanhachak. It was felt that the suspected militants, who fired at Arora, had helped Irfan and his two accomplices exfiltrate from Kanhachak with local support. Even on Arora's complaint to the concerned police, the issue was not taken up for further investigation. Now, the fresh incident of exfiltration by three more Pak militants-- Abdul Razzak, Mohammad Sadiq and Rafaqat Ali -- from J&K borders a month or so back, has again brought into focus the role of locals as guides.
The CI personnel were now on the look out for these sympathisers, official sources said.
Razzak, Sadiq and Ali were arrested by Delhi police on October 30, 2000, from Delhi and Rohtak along with five other Pak nationals for their involvement in the blasts near Red Fort, Delhi.
They had escaped from the Delhi police custody on January 1 this year while being taken to a hospital for check-up.
Quoting intelligence inputs, sources said there were indications which suggested that the trio had managed to cross back to Pakistan from J&K borders with local support.
Following these inputs, the CI agencies and border troops had started the exercise of identifying loopholes on the borders followed by their plugging.
Sources said the evident loopholes seemed to be the water bodies, including nullahs and rivulets. Though the borders were fenced and there were adequate number of troops on them, such incidents showed they were still porous at some places.
The 16 militants, who were killed by army at Kalakote in Rajouri in four gunbattles early this month, too had infiltrated into Indian territory from a nullah at Jogwan in Akhnoor.
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