J&K police arrested 2 Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists and Over Ground Worker (OGW), who were involved in the attack on a police post in Chanapora, on Sunday. Though terrorists tried to snatch the weapons from the policemen yet they failed in their attempt. The SSP identified the arrested terrorists as Mushtaq, Junaid, and Latief. Junaid, the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Srinagar Haseeb Mughal said, was involved in a number of stone-pelting cases, while Lateef is an overground worker (OGW) of the terrorists and helped them with logistics.

 

 

 

 

“We collected the digital evidence and strengthened the intelligence grid after the attack. We focused 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, he said.

 

 

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. One of them, named 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 perhaps there is no backup for the sentry, so he (sentry) can be targeted. 

 

Then he came back to the post and was accompanied by another person named Mushtaq who was wearing a pheran and a helmet. When Mushtaq was asked to remove the pheran for undergoing search, he took out a pistol and fired on the sentry, the SSP said, adding the sentry was injured and 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, he said. He said 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.