New currency note recovered from slain Kashmir militants
According to reports, a brief gunfight erupted in Hajin village of Bandipora district early morning. The joint team of army’s 13 RR, CRPF and SOG cordoned off the area and a fierce gun battle followed leading the killing of the militants.
Huge cache of arms and ammunition from the encounter site were recovered, adding militants had Rs 15,000 in cash in which two new notes of Rs 2000 and some other cash was also recovered from the site, said officials.
Yesterday, four masked and armed men burst into a bank in Kashmir and left with Rs. 13 lakh, largely in the old Rs. 500 and 1,000 notes.
The robbery took place at a branch of the state-run Jammu and Kashmir Bank in Malpora, 100 km from Srinagar.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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