Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 27: Police officials this evening said no banned explosive material was present in the suspicious object found along the Jammu-Poonch National Highway which was taken for an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and destroyed in a controlled detonation.
A bottle filled with a liquid and a poly bag filled with some solid materials were found near Kallar Chowk along the highway by a Road Opening Party (ROP) of the Army in the morning, police officials in Rajouri said in the morning.
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However, in the evening, Jammu Police came out with a handout saying: “In context to the suspected object found by the ROP on the highway, it is informed that during initial investigation of the matter, it has come to the fore that no banned explosive material was present in the suspicious object”.
“It seems that some miscreants placed a suspicious object in a disintegrated form to give it the shape of an IED to create social disorder,” the handout said, adding that further investigation was underway.
Earlier in the day, Rajouri Police had said that a major tragedy was averted with timely detection of the suspected IED at Kallar Chowk along the highway which prompted suspension of traffic for nearly one-and-a-half hours.
The Army unit noticed the suspicious material at around 7.30 am and subsequently, the Bomb Disposal Squad destroyed it on the spot.
Police had said a probe into the matter has been started with Deputy Superintendent of Police, Headquarters, Govind Rattan personally conducting the investigation.
On May 22, police busted a major militant hideout in Chatyari forest area of Rajouri district and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including four AK assault rifles and 11 pistols.
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