Security forces foil terror plot by recovering IED in J&K’s Rajouri: Police

The security forces in Rajouri foiled a terror plot by recovering an Improvised Explosive Devise on Rajouri Gurdan road, Jammu and Kashmir police said on Saturday.

Sheema Nabi Qasba, senior superintendent of police, Rajouri, said that the IED was taken to a safer location and destroyed, reported news agency ANI.

The senior official said that the police recovered the IED after receiving a credible input on “some suspicious movement” in Gurdan Chawa village on Rajouri Gurdan road. Special operations groups of police and teams of the Indian Army launched a joint cordon and search operation in the area in the early morning hours on Saturday, she added.

The security forces found a suspicious object lying alongside the road which turned out to be an IED.

“Bomb Squad of police later took it in its possession for further destruction as per SOPs and through a controlled explosion which was then destroyed in a safer location,” ANI quoted SSP Rajouri as saying.

Further investigation is underway.