NEW DELHI: Security forces on Sunday said they have foiled a plan by terrorists to carry out a major strike in Jammu & Kashmir on the second anniversary of the Pulwama attack.
“We were on high alert as we had inputs that terror groups were planning an attack on the anniversary of Pulwama attack. The attack was to be carried out in Jammu,” Jammu Inspector General of Police (IG) Mukesh Singh told reporters.
He said that security forces arrested a person named Sohail on Saturday night and recovered 6-6.5 kg of IED from his possession which was to be used to launch a major strike in the Union Territory.
“On interrogation, Sohail revealed that he studies in Chandigarh and received message from Pakistan‘s Al Badr Tanzeem to plant an IED in Jammu,” Singh said.
He said Sohail was given three to four target locations to place the IED, after which he was supposed to take a flight to Srinagar where an overground worker of Al Badr Tanzeem named Athar Shakeel Khan would have received him.
The IED recovery comes close on the heels of the arrest of two top terrorists from Kunjwani in Jammu and Bari Brahmana area of Samba district.