KL Report

SRINAGAR

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested one of the absconding accused persons in Poonch blast from central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, official sources said Saturday.

Irfan Ahmad Khan, son of Abdul Qayoom Khan, who is the resident of Dhargloon Poonch, was arrested by SIT Poonch police in connection with Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast that destroyed the office of a senior revenue officer (Naib Tehsildar) in Poonch on the intervening night of 24 June, this year. Police had said that he was the mastermind of the attack

Official sources had told GNS that during the investigations, Irfan had revealed before police that he purchased the explosive material worth 60,000 rupees from a man namely Abdul Majeed Ganie hailing from border district of Kupwara.

They had said that a police team led by Station House Officer Police (SHO) police station Gursai, Poonch district arrived here in Kashmir to arrest Abdul Majeed.

On 12 July, sources had said: “The police team who had already arrested a person Irfan Ahmad Khan on his disclosure, raided at Batmaloo in Srinagar,” adding: “During the raid the police team arrested one of the accused Abdul Majeed Ganie at Batmaloo”.

Eyewitnesses had said that the police team who were travelling in a Scorpio (JK12-4453/ White Colour) passed through Maisuma-Barbar Shah-Dalgate road.

“On reaching Munawerabad near HDFC bank, the accused Abdul Majeed shouted, save me, save me, from these unknown persons. In the meantime, scores of persons mostly youth assembled and smashed the vehicle by pelting stones at the vehicle,” they said.

All the six policemen who were in civvies received injuries in the incident, sources said.

The two accused Abdul Majeed and Irfan Khan while taking advantage of stone pelting in the area managed to escape, sources had said.

Meanwhile, after the incident, the SHO Gursai was attached at Police Lines Poonch while a new SHO Inspector Irfan was posted at the police station.

Police sources said that the SIT continued searches for the absconding accused persons, sources said, adding Irfan, after being identified by Head Constable Nisar Khan, was arrested at Gutli Bagh Ganderbal last night.

The accused has been placed under custody at police station Ganderbal. Sources said he is being interrogated and it is quite possible that Majeed would also be soon arrested by police. The special team consisted of Head Constable Nisar Khan, Head Constable  Naveed Khan, Head Constable Maroof Ahmad and  Constable Ajaz Ahmad and was headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Burhan-ul-Haq.

The senior police officials in Poonch have termed the arrest of accused Irfan as big success.

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