Search Operation Intensifies In Samba After Sidhra Encounter On Dec 28, Says Police

The Jammu Kashmir (J&Okay) police intensified search operations round Sidhra because of the potential of extra terrorists hiding there. The search was performed following a confrontation on December 28 through which 4 terrorists have been down by safety personnel, information company ANI reported on Saturday quoting a senior police officer. 

“Now we have intensified the search operation due to the potential of terrorists hiding within the space,” GR Bhardwaj, Deputy Superintendent, Particular Operations Group, Jammu and Kashmir Police was quoted as saying by ANI. 

J&Okay | Search operation underway in Samba after an encounter came about in Sidhra space in Jammu on December 28.

Now we have intensified the search operation due to the potential of terrorists hiding within the space: GR Bhardwaj, Dy SP, SOG, J&Okay Police pic.twitter.com/z6QttmU3Dr

— ANI (@ANI) December 31, 2022

An encounter between safety forces and two to 3 terrorists broke earlier this week on Wednesday on the Panjtirthi-Sidhra highway in Jammu, prompting additional reinforcement to be rushed to the scene. There was a grenade burst, which was adopted by a gunfight.

In line with Mukesh Singh, extra director normal of police, the truck driver fled the scene. We seen an uncommon motion of a truck and adopted it. The truck was stopped at Sidhra in Jammu the place the driving force managed to flee. When the truck was searched terrorists hiding inside, fired on the personnel. The retaliatory firing was executed,” Singh claimed, as per a report by The Hindustan Instances. 

The confrontation occurred after police defused a 15-kilogram improvised explosive gadget (IED) seized in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur space on Monday, avoiding a serious terror plot. In line with officers, one coded sheet and one letter pad web page from the outlawed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have been additionally discovered, and a suspect has been detained.

In November, Jammu and Kashmir police and safety forces recovered one AK-47 rifle, one AK-56 rifle, 4 AK collection magazines, stay rounds, RDX powder, nails & ball bearings, 9-volt batteries, detonators, IED mechanism circuit, distant management, free wire, and iron pipes in a joint operation, and arrested two energetic LeT terrorists and two associates, together with a girl, at Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir.

(With Inputs From Businesses)