Srinagar: In a shocking incident, a six-year-old boy from Asrarabad in Jammu and Kashmir was found playing with a Chinese-made assault rifle scope.
Authorities questioned the parents of the child, who said he had found it in a garbage dump near the headquarters of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), as reported by NDTV.
Senior police officials have visited the area where the scope was found and a wider search operation has been ordered, Hindustan Times reported. Further details are awaited.
Meanwhile, a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was conducted by joint forces in
the Mansar area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district after locals reported suspicious movement in the area, IANS reported.
The agency quoted officials as saying that locals in a village near Mansar in the district reported seeing some suspicious persons moving in the area, which includes forests, agricultural fields, and other locations.
In another anti-terrorist operation carried out by joint forces in the Udhampur district, a policeman was killed, and two others were injured last week.
A terrorist was reportedly injured in the encounter with the joint forces. Intelligence inputs suggest three terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit had gone to a village in search of food, after which the operation was launched, Zee News reported.
Udhampur has witnessed four fierce encounters between terrorists and the security forces this year. A top JeM commander belonging to Pakistan was killed in one of these encounters in the Basantgarh area of Udhampur on June 26.