Srinagar: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a militant associate along with ten grenades in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.In a handout the police said that today based on inputs about an imminent terror attack in Pulwama town, a joint naka of Pulwama SOG, 55RR and CRPF 182Bn, was laid in the evening hours at the Circular road, Pulwama.According to police spokesman, during checking, one person namely Danish Bashir son of Bashir Ahmad resident of Dangerpora, Pulwama, who was travelling on his Scooty, was asked to stop at the circular road and search was made. Upon checking, 10 live grenades and 05 batteries were found to be in his possession which were carefully wrapped and kept in the under seat of the two wheeler. Cognizance of the said recovery has been taken and case FIR no. 224/2024 u/s 18, 39 UAPA, ¾ Explosives Act, and the said suspect was arrested, he said.Further investigation into this matter is going on, more arrests are likely to take place, reads the statement.(GNS)
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