Big LeT group infiltrates into J&K, plans to attack on I'Day

JAMMU: A big group of ultras have infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district via the Line of Control on July 30 and were heading for Tangmargh belt to meet a Lashker-e-Toiba 'chief' to engineer a major attack on the eve of Independence Day, a youth, the militants abducted as guide, said, according to police sources.

A group of militants numbering 20 to 22 had infiltrated into Poonch via Doonigram area along LoC and kidnapped a villager Mohmmad Sharief to use him as a guide in Poonch district on July 30, the sources said.

However, after two days of guiding them in Poonch via Loran, where one militant was killed by troops on July 31, Sharief gave them a slip and escaped on Tuesday night, they said.

He approached security forces and police in Poonch and narrated the tale of his abduction to them.

Sharief told them that a LeT militant group is heading to Tangmargh belt of Baramulla district via Poonch to meet their LeT 'chief of operations' for engineering a major attack on the eve of coming Independence Day.

On his information, security forces and police have launched a major operation in Pirpanchal and passes towards it have been blocked by troops, the sources said adding additional troops have been deployed to track down the militants.