Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 16: Police today arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen militant in Doda, who had returned from Pakistan to revive terror activities in the district. Arms and ammunition were recovered from his possession. The militant had entered into this side from Indo-Nepal border.
The captured militant has been identified as Tanveer Ahmed son of Nizam-ud-Din Wani, a resident of Bagodiyan Dhar in Doda district.
Doda police developed an information about the return of Tanveer Ahmed, a Hizbul Mujahideen cadre from Pakistan and was hunting for him for past couple of days. He was finally nabbed in wee hours of this morning from a hideout at Khlaini under the jurisdiction of Doda police station by police parties headed by SHO Doda Inspector Sajjad Haider and Incharge Khlaini Police Post Sub Inspector Tariq Hussain under the supervision of DIG Doda-Ramban range Gareeb Dass and SSP Doda Arif Reshu.
Police said Tanveer Ahmed had crossed over to Pakistan from the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district in 2002 on being motivated by Hizbul Mujahideen commanders. He underwent training in Hizbul Mujahideen camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and remained associated with various militant commanders across the LoC.
As militancy had died down in Doda, the Hizbul commanders in Pakistan had decided to depute Tanveer back to his home district to revive militancy by recruiting youths into militancy and giving them local training.
However, Doda police with timely arrest of Tanveer Ahmed has foiled the plot of the militants.
At the time of arrest, police recovered, one Chinese pistol, two magazines, 30 pistol rounds, one wireless set, one satellite telephone and two hand grenades from the possession of Hizbul Mujahideen militant.
The militants has been booked in case FIR No. 102/2012 under Sections 3 Enemy Agent Ordnance, 3/7/25 Arms Act and 6 IWT Act at police station Doda.
Sources said the militant has been whisked away to a safer area for sustained interrogation to ascertain his links in PoK, Jammu and Kashmir and other places with the militants.
Meanwhile, troops of Rashtriya Rifles under the aegis of Counter Insurgency Force Delta and police destroyed a hideout of the militants at village Batu, about eight kilometers from Banihal in Ramban district.
Recoveries made from the hideout included 15 UBGL grenades, four Chinese grenades, one RPG rounds, two RPG fuses, 43 AK rounds and four kg explosive material.
No arrests were made during searches in the area, sources said.
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