2 held for attack on cop, hunt on for third with gun
TNN Bureau. Updated: 3/27/2017 12:33:35 AM
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JAMMU: The Police in Jammu and in south Kashmir have arrested three persons in connection with last night's attack on a cop while the fourth person is still at large along with the snatched gun.
Inspector General of Jammu Police SD Singh Jamwal told The News Now that the case has been fully cracked and the person who ran away with gun is under the radar and likely to be nabbed soon.
Even as two of the four were directly connected with the ring of stone-pelters in south Kashmir but in their separate interrogations they have told the Police that motive behind snatching the gun was to use it for extortion. The trio planned to go to Amritsar after gun snatching and return to Kashmir after the situation had cooled down.
Late last night, three boys, riding a motor-cycle, threw chilli powder into the eyes of a personal security officer of a cleric in Jammu, besides hitting him with blunt objects and fleeing with his AK-47 rifle.
Police have arrested two of the suspects -- Masood and Shahid, and launched a manhunt to track down the third accused Asif who decamped with the AK-47 rifle. Masood hails from Shopian district. All the three have a police record of being stone-pelters and have been missing for some time.
The person who threw the chilli powder is identified as Masood Ahmed Naik of Ratnipora, Shopian, while the one who hit the cop with baseball bat has been identified as Shahid son of Abdul Rashid of Kulgam. He was arrested from Nagrota along with tavera jeep bearing number JK08 8844.
The planned was hatched in Bathindi area of Jammu with Asif Hussain Butt son of Ghulam Hussain Butt as the kingpin. Asif's family has a house in Jammu since last year and they come to stay here in the winters.
A high alert was immediately sounded in Jammu city and security was beefed up in view of the Prime Minister's visit there on April 2 for the inauguration of the Chenani-Nashri tunnel.
The incident took place last night when constable Mohd Hanief, PSO of Anjuman Minhaj-e-Rasool chairman Maulana Dehlavi, was walking down to the district police lines last night, police said.