Katua Attack: Carve out a sorting operation after shooting between hidden terrorists and security forces

“Search and destruction operations were launched first on April 25. In progress.

Officials said a search and destruction operation to track three militants, believed to be hiding in a forest area of ​​Panjthirthi-Barota in Katua, was restored on Tuesday (April 1), with multiple agents, officials said.

The area was placed under the cordon after the night shootings between police and activists on Monday (March 31).

Officials said the three militants were believed to have come from groups that confronted security forces at a nursery near the international border on March 23. All the militants managed to escape.

Four days later, the security forces met an encounter in the forest area of ​​Sanyar Belt in Katua, with two militants eliminating them, and the rest managed to escape. During the fire exchange, four police officers were also killed and three others were injured.

As hidden militants changed their locations in the jungle, security forces launched multi-agency operations to track them.

On Monday morning (March 31), search surgery strengthened aerial surveillance and deployment of sniffing dogs, eventually having a new encounter at night. Sources said on Monday (March 31) that a night-travel cordon was laid to ensure that the three militants in the forest did not escape.

Tracking and eliminating militants’ actions resumed on Tuesday (April 1), officials said the region has strengthened security to strengthen cordons and prevent Ultras from escaping. “The search and destruction action was launched on Tuesday at First Light [April 1] morning. Ongoing action.

It added: “The Indian Army, police and CRPF’s operations to intelligence input have deployed multiple surveillance and weapons across the entire region of Panjtirthi Kathua.

Officials said the operation was conducted on Monday (March 31) by a team of officers composed of the Army, Police, NSG, CRPF and BSF in the forest belts of Rui, Gisana, Jiti, Gati and Sanyar in the Rajbag area.

The night before, three suspicious people in black robes and bags entered a villager’s house called Shanker, in Rui’s village and invited a lonely elderly woman to drink water.

Before escaping, they broke into her kitchen and took away the “rotis” and “sabzi”. They also tried to give her two Rs 500 bills before escaping. She refused.

Security agencies say militants have a hard time surviving without a network of ground workers (OGW) that provides them with food, shelter and guidance.

Officials said the troops had picked up six people, including some women from a family, to question because they allegedly provided assistance to militants in the area.

The detainee allegedly belongs to the suspect (OGW) Mohammad Latief, who had been sentenced to prison in the Public Safety Act (PSA) in a raid on an Army truck last year, with six soldiers killed.

The terrorist Abu Tala, who was killed, is also believed to live in Latief’s home.