At least six army troopers were injured on Thursday morning, one of them seriously, when a grenade went off accidentally inside a camp in Poonch district of Jammu region.
It was also revealed that Bashir motivated two youngsters and made them to join the terrorist ranks.
The grenade was aimed at a security patrol but lost its mark and exploded on a road.
Landa currently resides in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta in Canada, and is a member of Babbar Khalsa International.
The grenade was aimed at a Special Operations Group patrol near the Lal Chowk bus stand, but fell short of the target and exploded on the road.\n\n
Terming the arrest a "major success", the IGP said it was the result of robust security measures put in place by the police.
"The agenda as published at the moment, is much ado about nothing - all this could have waited till Winter session in November. I am sure the legislative grenades are being kept up their sleeves to be unleashed at the last moment as usual. Parde ke peeche kuch aur hai!" he said.
However, there has been an appreciable decline in the casualties of civilians and security forces in the terror attacks in the past nearly four years. Against 11 civilian killings from October 27, 2015 to August 4, 2019, there was a 63 per cent decrease with seven civilian killings reported post the abrogation of Article 370.
Security personnel in Shopian town were the target, but those who got hurt were civilians.
Three civilians were injured in a powerful explosion in North Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon.
The Manipur police said all personnel of the force from top to bottom are united and any attack on anyone and use of social media to target any officer or unit will be taken seriously and stringent action will be taken.
Police said militants lobbed a grenade at the bus stand in the Gulmarg health resort which exploded causing injuries to six persons.
A large number of women from Malom in Imphal West district blocked the road to the airport in protest against the killing of the policemen in Moreh.
At least eight persons were injured in a grenade explosion triggered by suspected militants at the busy Lal Chowk in the heart of the city on Saturday afternoon.
Two people were killed and 40 others, including four army soldiers, wounded in a south Kashmir grenade explosion late on Saturday afternoon.
In all, over a dozen people were injured in the explosion in the main market in Bejibehara town located on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.
Recently, the Hizbul Mujaheedin and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba had condemned the grenade attacks at crowded places in separate statements.
Police informed that the grenade went off amid a 500-strong crowd that was celebrating the spring festival of the Mising tribe inside the premises of a local cultural centre. In a statement issued on Sunday, ULFA denied its hands behind the blast and stated that it was the handiwork of 'forces' that were out to defame the image of the ULFA and trigger conflicts between different groups of people in the state.
Over 10,000 lives have been lost due to grenades, IEDs and landmines since 1990.
Six people, including two policemen, were injured in a powerful blast in north Kashmir on Saturday. Militants tossed a hand grenade at the local police station in Sopore town, which exploded near the main entrance to the police station, said a senior police officer.
Police sources said grenades were lobbed at the CRPF camp located in Budshah Chowk, near the city centre this afternoon. The injured have been rushed to the nearby hospitals, they added.
The injured included on CRPF soldier.\n\n\n\n\n\n
In Jehanabad jail, dozens of dreaded Maoist guerillas as well as activists of banned Ranvir Sena, a private army of landed upper caste-Bhumihar, are lodged.
At least fifteen persons, including several police personnel, were injured when suspected militants belonging to the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom detonated a grenade blast near a police check-point in busy Paltan Bazar locality in the heart of Guwahati city at around 8 pm.
The grenade exploded in a Karachi anti-terror court injuring 15 people.
Six persons, including two women, a police head constable and three other civilians were injured on Friday afternoon in a powerful explosion in north Kashmir's Sopore town.
A grenade was lobbed by a youth at an election rally being addressed by a People's Democratic Party candidate in Noorabad Assembly seat of south Kashmir's Kulgam district.
Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the twin grenade attacks that took place at Batamaloo and Baramulla in Kashmir in August this year by arresting two Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) operatives.
The area where the explosion occurred is close to the civil secretariat complex, where the offices of chief minister, ministers and senior bureaucrats are located.
In a major blow to terror infrastructure and terror sympathisers in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, security forces have eliminated key launch commander Bashir Ahmad Malik in an anti-infiltration operation in the Uri sector, the army said on Thursday.
Tarique Rahman, the son of ex-Bangladeshi premier Kaleda Zia, and 29 others were charged on Sunday over a deadly grenade attack in 2004 on a rally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that killed 24 people and injured some 300 others.
A military official has said that the attack was also sabotaged because the grenades were defective.
An army major was killed Saturday in an accidental hand grenade explosion in north Kashmir's Kangan area of Ganderbal district.
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