A fresh attempt to attack a military installation with the help of drones was foiled by alert Army sentries at the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak station who fired at the unmanned aerial vehicles that flew away, an incident that came hours after an IAF station saw the first terror attack using quadcopters.
The officials said the suspected drone returned to the Pakistani side when the border guards fired half a dozen rounds to bring it down.
Over the last week, at least five drone activities have been reported in Jammu.
In the drive that began from Peer Baba in the Chatta area, police personnel collected details of residents, including their contact numbers.
Investigators searching for clues in the sighting of two drones over an Army station on the outskirts of Jammu city on Monday had pinned hopes on a CCTV image suspecting it to be of the remote control but it turned out to be of a bundle of newspapers.
The spies revealed that they were tasked by the ISI officer to revive militancy in Jammu by recruiting youth in the region.
The possibility of the use of weaponised drones for terrorist activities against strategic and commercial assets calls for serious attention by the global community, India has told the United Nations General Assembly, a day after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the Indian Air Force (IAF) station at Jammu airport.
Army troops on Friday launched a massive search operation in the outskirts of Jammu following reports of the presence of two militants in the area. A woman informed police about the presence of two suspected militants in police uniforms in Ratnuchak forest area on the outskirts of the Jammu city on Friday afternoon, police said.
Officers and jawans who rushed to the barrack on hearing the gunshot found Naik Kumar lying dead in a pool of blood.
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