Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir: Truck driver with pistol, grenades held
Srinagar: The Jammu Police on Sunday ended a smuggling attempt of weapons and explosives as the security personnel seized a pistol and two hand grenades from a truck driver in the city.
The driver was identified as Muntazir Manzoor.
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, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Chandan Kohli, told ANI.
In the initial investigation, the driver has so far divulged that this consignment of a weapon, grenades was dropped by drone from across the border and handlers from across tasked him to carry this consignment upto Kashmir valley.
The entire operation of foiling this bid of weapon smuggling was carried out by Special Operations Group (SoG) Jammu and teams of police headed by Superintendent of police, South Deepak Digra and SDPO Gandhir Nagar PK Mengi, the news agency reported.
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