11-07-2021: The Jammu police on Sunday foiled a bid of smuggling weapons, explosives recovering the same from a truck driver in the vicinity of Jammu city.
Senior Superintendent of Police Jammu, Chandan Kohli said that after some apprehensions and specific inputs regarding the bid of smuggling weapons, a high alert was issued across Jammu on Sunday and mobile vehicle checking nakas were laid at more than a dozen places.
Similarly, a team of police laid a mobile vehicle checking Naka at Purmandal morh under the jurisdiction of Gangyal police station when a truck JK13E 0211 was signaled to stop for frisking.
The driver of the vehicle however tried to avoid the checking by sharing excuses that developed suspicion after which the vehicle was put to thorough frisking.
One pistol and two hand grenades were recovered from the vehicle after which the driver identified as Muntazir Manzoor son of Manzoor Ahmed Bhat resident of Prischoo Pulwama has been arrested.
In the initial investigation, the driver has so far divulged that this consignment of weapons, grenades were dropped by drone from across the border, and handlers from across tasked him to carry this consignment up to Kashmir valley.
The entire operation of foiling this bid of weapon smuggling was carried out by SoG Jammu and teams of police headed by SP South Deepak Digra and SDPO Gandhi Nagar PK Mengi.
SSP Jammu, Chandan Kohli said that further investigation, in this case, is going on while questioning of the accused driver is going on to unearth more links.
Pertinent to mention here that the Jammu police are working hard on Anti militancy front and many terror plots have been foiled in the recent past that includes the recovery of an IED weighing 5.5 KGs and the arrest of the accused who was tasked to carry out a major IED strike in Jammu but the plot was foiled.