Through PTI
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested two folks for allegedly transporting the 2 JeM terrorists who have been killed in an stumble upon in Sunjwan right here, officers mentioned on Sunday.
Motive force Bilal Ahmad Wagay and his helper Ishfaq Chopan have been nabbed from Anantnag district of south Kashmir. Previous, the police had arrested one individual and detained every other in reference to the stumble upon case.
Wagey and Chopan are accused of ferrying the 2 Pashtu-speaking Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists, both from Pakistan or Afghanistan, from Supwal in Samba district, after their infiltration from around the border, to Sunjwan in Jammu an afternoon sooner than the stumble upon.
Each the terrorists, supplied with suicide vests and complex guns, have been killed within the stumble upon on Friday, avoiding a significant suicide assault within the town.
An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Central Commercial Safety Drive (CISF) used to be additionally killed when the terrorists attacked a bus sooner than being engaged by way of the protection forces.
9 safety workforce, together with two policemen, have been additionally injured within the incident that came about simply two days forward of the scheduled seek advice from of High Minister Narendra Modi to Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The officers mentioned Wagay and his helper had left for Kashmir after losing the terrorists in Sunjwan.
“They have been arrested in a late-night operation from Kokernag on Saturday and are being wondered,” an legitimate mentioned.
Addressing a press convention on Saturday night time, Further Director Normal of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh introduced a leap forward within the case and mentioned whilst two individuals have been nabbed, efforts have been directly to arrest two others, together with Wagay. Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh of Tral used to be the primary individual to be arrested within the case.
Mohammad Iqbal Slightly of Malwan village of Kulgam in whose place of abode the terrorists stayed at Jallalabad locality of Sunjwan used to be detained at the disclosure of Sheikh.
Slightly has now not been officially arrested within the case up to now.
“The research of cell tower information in addition to web information utilization of the overall house ended in suspicion on an individual by way of the identify of Bilal Ahmed Beig (Wagay) of south Kashmir’s Kokarnag who had gained the terrorists at the border at Supwal in Samba district and taken them to Jallalabad house sooner than handing them to Sheikh,” the Jammu police leader had mentioned.
Sheikh’s brother Asif — a key conspirator within the case — remains to be at massive and efforts are directly to nab him, the officers mentioned.
After the stumble upon, police groups labored tirelessly to ascertain the id of the conspirators who have been in the back of the plan to hold out a suicide assault in Jammu.
In line with the ADGP, Sheikh and his brother Asif are deeply concerned with terrorists of JeM.
“Asif created a telegram ID referred to as ‘Pagal Jamaat’ (Mad workforce) for Sheikh and in addition supplied him with a cell phone with a SIM card which used to be used to ascertain touch with a JeM commander in Pakistan by way of the identify of ‘Veer’, his telegram id,’ Singh mentioned.
Wagay had set out at the directions of a JeM commander from Kashmir’s Pulwama at 10 am on April 20 and reached Jammu within the night time night time.
“He stayed at Shipping Nagar and at round 12 middle of the night, he units out for Sapwal (border) in Samba and collected two terrorists of JeM. They board a medium measurement truck loaded with empty vegetable crates and well created a hollow space a few of the crates for hiding the terrorists,” he mentioned.
They reached Jallalabad locality of Sunjwan round 2.30 am. Sheikh gained the terrorists and took them to a area in Jallalabad the place they stayed and in addition mentioned their plans with their handlers around the border, he mentioned.
The plan used to be to take them to the closest safety base and inflict most casualties at the safety forces to deter the VVIP seek advice from, the ADGP mentioned, relating to the seek advice from of High Minister Modi to Palli Panchayat in Samba on Sunday.