Security forces on Sunday busted a hideout of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and arrested a terrorist associate in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Based on credible input regarding the presence of LeT terrorists in a hideout located in a house in Chandhara Pampore village of the south Kashmir district’s Awantipora area, security forces launched a search operation early this morning, a police officer said. During the search, the hideout was unearthed in a cowshed and subsequently destroyed, he said. The terrorist associate of LeT, identified as Adil Ahmad Shah, a resident of Chandhara Pampore, was also arrested, he added.
Incriminating material and a cache of ammunition including 26 rounds of AK-47 were recovered from the hideout, the officer said. A case has been registered in the matter, he said.
