Srinagar,: Police on Monday claimed to have recovered 6Kgs of Improvised Explosive Device material on Jammu-Srinagar Highway from a person in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district.
In a handout issued to GNS, a police spokesperson said that police on technical inputs arrested one person, Zahid Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Aaziz Mir of Aripanath Beerwah Budgam. During examination, he disclosed having hidden IED material and police team recovery P3 type explosive material (weighing approximately 06 kg), one Electric detonator and around 500 gms of ball bearings and nails. “These Ball bearings & nails were to be used as projectiles/ shrapnels during blast,” he added.
The police spokesman said that the explosive substance was recovered near Sham Lal petrol pump located on highway. “The explosive substance recovered was meant for the manufacture of IEDs, so as to target the security forces deployed on the Highway”.
In this regards, he said, a case under FIR No 99/2022 has been registered at Batmaloo police station under section 13, 23, 38, 39 of UAPA and 3/5 of Explosive Substances Act, reads the statement.(GNS)
