Five HM militants responsible for car blasts arrested in Srinagar

Srinagar, Mar 20 (UNI) Troops of the 52 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police smashed a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) module responsible for causing car bomb blasts in the city, a Defence Ministry spokesman said.

Five HM militants were arrested when they were preparing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Batmaloo area of the city, the spokesman told UNI.

He said, based on a specific information troops of 52 RR and SOG launched a targetted operation in Batmaloo area of the uptown early this morning.

He said during the operation troops arrested one Ajaz Ahmad Bhat alias Babloo when he was making an IED, which would have been later fitted in a car for targetting security forces and politicians.

Later, interrogation of Babloo led to the arrest of four more HM militants from different places. The group was active in the Srinagar for the past some time.

He said the five HM militants confessed that they were making IEDs and to later plant them in stolen cars to cause blasts at different places.

The militants admitted to have planted ieds at Batmaloo, Bemina and Idgah, which were later defused by the security forces, he said.

Describing it a major success, the spokesman said it will help to reach the militants who had caused IED blast at Rawalpora that left nine soldiers and a woman injured on Saturday.

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