Punjab Police Arrests Two LeT Operatives For Smuggling Arms In Kashmir; Ten Hand Grenades Seized

Punjab police seized ten hand grenades, along with one AK-47 rifle with 2 magazines and 60 live cartridges from the Let operatives.

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Punjab Police today busted a major attempt to smuggle weapons into the Kashmir valley at the hands Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) members for carrying out terror attacks. As per the latest reports, the police has arrested two Jammu and Kashmir-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives, from Pathankot. The duo has been identified as Aamir Hussain Wani and Wasim Hassan Wani. As reported by ANI news agency, the Punjab police seized ten hand grenades, along with one AK-47 rifle with 2 magazines and 60 live cartridges from the Let operatives. The duo, actively involved in transporting automatic weapons and hand grenades from Punjab to the valley, was nabbed by the Pathankot police, who intercepted a truck on the Amritsar-Jammu highway. An IANS report quoted DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the weapons were recovered during a search operation of the truck. During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had been directed to collect this weapons consignment from Punjab by Ishfaq Ahmed Dar, alias Bashir Ahmed Khan, a former constable. The two further told Punjab police that they had collected the consignment from two unknown persons early this morning at a pre-arranged location on the Maqboolpura-Vallah road near the vegetable market in Amritsar. “They had then concealed the consignment in the truck, which they had brought ostensibly for the purpose of loading vegetables and fruits from the market in Amritsar,” the DGP said. During the preliminary investigation, Aamir Hussain Wani also disclosed that on his earlier trips to Punjab in his truck, he had collected more than Rs 20 lakh of hawala money at the behest of his handlers --Ishfaq Ahmed Dar and Rameez Raja. (With IANS news agency inputs)