Two Days After Rajouri Attacks, J&K Police And Army Seize Arms, Drugs In Kupwara

The J&K Police and the army launched a joint cordon & search operation and seized arms, ammunition, and drugs in separate raids in the Kupwara district.

Security has been tightened in Jammu & Kashmir after the Rajouri attacks. (Representative image)

Source : PTI

The Jammu & Kashmir Police in a joint operation with the Army recovered arms and ammunition in the Sadhpora Taad area of Karnah in Kupwara. The recovery comes just two days after the twin terror attacks in Rajouri on Sunday and Monday that claimed the lives of six people.

According to the police, three pistols, three pistol magazines, 22 pistol rounds, and three Chinese grenades were seized during a joint cordon & search operation.

In response to twin terrorist assaults in Rajouri district, the Central Reserve Police Force has decided to send an additional 18 companies (or 1,800 troops) to Jammu & Kashmir. The personnel will be stationed in the districts of Poonch and Rajouri, according to the sources.

As per sources, eight CRPF companies would be deployed very soon from adjacent deployment zones in Jammu and Kashmir, while 10 units will be sent from Delhi.

News agency ANI reported that the Kupwara Police also arrested two persons involved in the smuggling of narcotic substances, including heroin, from the Taad area in Kupwara.

Two kilograms of heroin was seized from the alleged narcotics smugglers. The arrests came just a fortnight after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Centre had mapped all the drug smuggling networks across the country and is moving to crack down on drug smugglers.

Shah said that every trafficker will be arrested within two years. “We have mapped the drug network across the states. No matter how big the criminal is, in the next two years there'll be a situation that they'll be behind the bars,” he said during the Lok Sabha's Winter session.

Shah had also said that there is no trade with Pakistan now, so there is no question of drugs coming through the border. "But this does not end the problems. Drug comes in by drone, smuggling, tunnels, ports, and airports," Amit Shah said.