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SRINAGAR, Dec 24: Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Army seized a large cache of rifles and ammunition in Uri’s Hathlanga Sector in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday.
In a tweet, Baramulla Police stated that in a joint operation, police and army 3Rajput discovered a large cache of rifles and ammunition from Uri’s Hathlanga sector.
“8 AK74u, 24 AK 74 Magazines, 12 Chinese Pistols, 24 pistol magazines, 9 Chinese grenades, 5 Pak Grenades, 5 wheat bags, 81 Pak Balloons, 560 rounds of AK Rifle, and 244 rounds of the pistol were recovered from the area”, it said.
A senior police official said that Baramulla police and 3Rajput of the army seized a sizable cache of ammunition and weapons from the Hathlanga region of Uri during a combined operation.
Meanwhile, a case has been registered in Police Station Uri in this regard and investigations have been initiated.
Notably, J-K Police on Friday arrested 17 persons, including five policemen, a political activist, a contractor and a shopkeeper, from different areas of Kupwara and Baramulla districts after unearthing a narcotics smuggling module originating from Pakistan, it informed through a statement.
According to the statement, after receiving a tip-off from Mohd Waseem Najar, a poultry shop owner was arrested with some narcotics from his house. Waseem admitted to being a part of a big group of drug peddlers and disclosed the names of some of his associates in the district as well as those at Uri in the Baramulla district.
The statement further added that subsequent raids were conducted at various places across the district and 16 more persons were arrested.
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