The IED-weighted down automobile intercepted in Pulwama carried a faux variety plate allocated to a bike registered within the call of a BSF officer, Sahil Kumar, at the regional delivery office in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir to mislead the forces, stated officers.
DGP Dilbagh Singh, who shared the photographs of the Santro vehicle wearing at least 30 kgs of explosives and its faux variety plate with HT, said, “It becomes a false variety plate used on the car to lie to the security forces.”
The DGP said the info of the real proprietor of the auto will be shared later.
Kathua district police chief, SSP Shailendra Kumar Mishra said, “The variety plate used on the Santro automobile turned into of a motorbike belonging to Sahil Kumar, an ASI of the BSF posted in Budgam.”
“The motorbike became registered in his call here in Kathua,” he introduced.
Mishra is knowledgeable that the BSF officer had not anything to do with the problem and it was a ploy of the terrorists to lie to the security forces.
The car with the faux registration number expanded after the motive force turned into signalled to forestall. When the police opened fire, the driving force first sped off, then abandoned the automobile and escaped.
The automobile turned into discovered later, a few kilometres away.
The safety forces had been performing on a tip-off about an automobile encumbered with explosives on the circulate inside the valley with the purpose to goal a protection camp or automobile.
The commandant of CRPF’s seventy-six Battalion, NK Pandey and his guys nonetheless do not forget the black day once they misplaced 5 in their colleagues, who have been some of the 40 CRPF men from numerous gadgets touring to Kashmir.
The convoy of seventy-eight buses had left CRPF transit camp right here in Jammu on a fateful day around four am and the bus that bore the brunt of suicide bombing belonged to the 76 Battalion.
