Published: June 14, 2020 5:08:00 am
One more Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative was arrested from Pathankot while he was trying to flee to Kashmir, Punjab Police said Saturday. (Representational Image)
One more Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative was arrested from Pathankot while he was trying to flee to Kashmir, Punjab Police said Saturday.
Javed Ahmed Bhat (29), a resident of Shirmal village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district was arrested Friday, a day after Punjab Police arrested two LeT operatives — Aamir Hussain Wani and Wasim Hassan Wani — while trying to smuggle weapons to the Valley.
Javed was intercepted and apprehended, along with his truck bearing a J&K registration number, from Dhobra bridge in Pathankot on Amritsar-Jammu Highway, as he was trying to escape to the Valley on learning about the arrest of his accomplices, DGP Dinkar Gupta said in a statement.
Javed hails from the same village as the other two operatives do. The trio were in the transport business together for the past two-three years, and had been making trips to Delhi, Amritsar and Jalandhar.
Brother to a J&K Home Guard, Javed himself was selected by the unit in 2012, but he quit subsequently, according to the DGP.
During initial questioning,…
