Army Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi visited the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch and took stock of the ongoing operation, the officials said, adding he asked the troops to be relentless in their pursuit.
'I could see the silhouettes of three men on the sixth floor.' 'I pointed them out to the NSG personnel standing beside me and suggested they take them out.' 'They did not have the clearance to fire.'
More than 40 persons have been detained for questioning as part of a massive operation currently underway to track down the terrorists involved in the Poonch terror attack, officials said on Monday.
The case was originally registered by the Bengaluru City Police on July 18 last year following the seizure of arms and ammunition, hand grenades and walkie-talkies from seven of the accused persons. The seizure was made when the seven men were in the house of one of the accused.
The soldiers' families were inconsolable as they waited for them to come home one last time.
The juvenile was also wanted in the murder of builder Sanjay Biyani on April 5 in Maharashtra's Nanded and the killing of gangster Rana Kandowalia outside a private hospital in Amritsar on August 4 last year,
The army has initiated a Court of Inquiry against a major-rank officer who allegedly opened fire on his colleagues and exploded grenades inside a camp in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday.
Eight persons were injured in a powerful hand grenade blast outside a mosque in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Thursday morning.
Taken by surprise when heavily armed men ambushed their convoy but quickly gathering themselves, jawans of the 22 Garhwal regiment fired more than 5,100 rounds to protect their injured colleagues and forced the terrorists to retreat into Kathua's wooded hills, officials said.
Kashmir's first INOX multiplex in Srinagar's Somwar area will be thrown open to the public next week.
A police spokesman said the attacker was riding pillion on a bike that stopped near the wine shop at Dewan Bagh in Baramulla around 8.30 pm.
Lone and two others were identified by police as the masterminds behind the grenade attack.
During the interrogation, the militants confessed their involvement in the crime, he added.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday inaugurated the valley's first multiplex in Sonawar area of Srinagar, ending the three-decade wait of the movie buffs to watch their favourite stars on the big screen.
The entire area has been cordoned off while drones and sniffer dogs are being used to sniff out the terrorists that might be hiding in the area, they said.
On Monday, five Army personnel were killed and five injured when heavily armed terrorists hurled a grenade and opened indiscriminate fire on two army vehicles around 3.30 pm on the Machedi-Kindli-Malhar mountainous road near Badnota village, about 150 km from the district headquarters Kathua.
Security forces faced stone-pelting during the operation but exercised maximum restraint.
Director general of police Dilbag Singh said the April 20 attack was a well-planned one and executed by three to five terrorists.
A while later, 'Meira Paibis' -- civilian group of Meitei women -- gathered at the spot, and demanded that the weapons be handed over to them, he said.
Police said the grenade was thrown from a speeding vehicle, and no one was injured.
No one was injured in the attack, said officials.
Here's the chronological list of all major terror attacks on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two decades.
Mukhtar Hussain Shah, a resident of Nar village in the district's Mendhar tehsil, was disturbed as he was facing some domestic issues, he said, adding that he was not summoned as a suspect.
Two men came on a motorcycle and threw a grenade in front of the shopping mall at arterial R G Baruah Road just opposite the zoo around 8 pm.
24-year-old Rifleman Yash Paul, a resident of Mantalai village in Udhampur lost his life in cross-LoC firing.
The conspiracy was unearthed when the Special Cell of Delhi police received an intelligence input about two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, identified as Dujana and Ukasha, who allegedly infiltrated in Jammu and Kashmir through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following which an FIR was registered, said a police source.
The recovery was made at the place, which had witnessed a suicide attack carried out by Pakistani militants three years back.
A terrorist holed up in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district was killed by security forces on Wednesday in a more than 15-hour operation during which his partner was also shot dead and a CRPF jawan lost his life, officials said.
The Assam police on Friday arrested four men including an ULFA (anti-talks faction) militant for triggering grenade explosions in Lakhimpur town of eastern Assam on July 23.
In the blast, 11 people were injured, one of them critically, he said. While 7 of the injured are locals, 4 others are outsiders.
The man, who allegedly hurled a grenade at a religious leader outside a mosque in Pulwama, was handed over to the army by locals on Saturday and he said he carried out the attack at the behest of separatist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.
A police station in north Kashmir's Bandipore district was attacked by terrorists, who hurled a hand grenade injuring four policemen, late on Tuesday evening.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a most-wanted terrorist, carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakhs, from the Delhi airport three years after he was declared an absconder and the Interpol issued a red corner notice against him.
"The 'red bag' belonged to one of the hijackers, it contained explosives, and possibly, real passports, too.
Three cops, including an officer, and a civilian were wounded in a powerful hand grenade blast in downtown Khanyar locality of the summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday evening.
One militant was neutralised by the security forces.
The Mirwaiz said that the attack was the 'handiwork of forces who were opposed to peace in Kashmir.'
A recipient of President's gallantry award, Sub Inspector Shiv Kumar Sharma was arrested in Doda for his alleged involvement in terror activities
'We were scared about what would happen if these terrorists managed to enter the building.'
Police said militants attacked a patrol party of the CRPF with a powerful grenade at Habak road crossing on the strategic Srinagar Leh highway.
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