Srinagar: There Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists, involved in Friday’s attack on a police post here in Chanapora, have been arrested, police said here, Sunday.
“We have arrested three persons so far in connection with the Chanapora attack case,” senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Srinagar Haseeb Mughal told reporters. The SSP identified the arrested terrorists as Mushtaq, Junaid and Latief. “They belong to the JeM and were involved in the attack on the Chanapora police post in which a sentry was injured. They had also made a failed attempt to snatch his rifle.
“We collected the digital evidence and strengthened the intelligence grid after the attack. We focussed on the suspects already on our radar. We picked them up, questioned them and during questioning, one of them confessed and gave us further details about the group,” added the police official.
Giving details of the attack, the SSP said the three came to Chanapora on a motorcycle, but left it some distance away from the police post. “Junaid, went inside the police post with the excuse of tracking the status of passport verification. He checked the place and when he saw that the sentry there had no visible backup, he came out and told his accomplices that the police personnel can be targeted,” Mughal informed.
“Then he came back to the post and was accompanied by Mushtaq who was wearing a pheran and a helmet. When Mushtaq was asked to remove the pheran for security reasons, he took out a pistol and fired on the sentry,” the SSP added, adding the sentry who was injured is undergoing treatment at SKIMS Hospital at Soura.
The senior police official said the terrorists also tried to snatch the rifle of the injured sentry but had to leave it because the gun was clamped with a chain to his belt. In the meantime, the other policemen fired and they fled from the spot, stated Mughal.
Mughal informed that the police have recovered a Chinese pistol, two magazines and six live rounds from them. The motorcycle has also been recovered, he said, adding further investigations in the case were on.
Mughal said Mushtaq, a postgraduate from Kashmir University, was in touch with a JeM cadre, named Sameer from Pulwama district of south Kashmir, and has been associated with the group for about a year.