Jan 21 Narwal blasts!
- Since the IED is new to police, experts will see how harmful and how powerful it can be, whereas police not touched it so far.
- Perfume IED first of its kind after sticky bombs, timer-fitted IEDs and it can be more dangerous.
- Special team to check the impact of Perfume IED, its shape is like a perfume bottle, which is new for everyone.
- The arrested person was affiliated with LeT, in touch with two more LeT militants settled in Pakistan.
jj correspondent
Jammu, Feb 02: Claiming about achieving a major breakthrough in January 21 Narwal Jammu blast case, the Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh IPS said that one government employee was the instrumental, linked with Lashkar-e-Toiba has been nabbed and a “perfume IED”, recovered from his possession.
While addressing a press conference in Jammu, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh exhorted that Jammu & Kashmir Police had worked hard in last 11 days to get the breakthrough in the Narwal blast case and achieved a major success by arresting one Arif Ahmed, a resident of Reasi district of Jammu, who is happened to be a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant. Whereas, “perfume IED”, has been recovered from his possession, which is first kind till date.
The Director General said that Arif is a government employee and is an active militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He further added that Arif was working at the behest of Qasim, a resident of Reasi and his uncle Qamardin who is also resident of Reasi and presently residing in Pakistan, who are part of LeT.
Disclosing about the involvement of Arif in anti-national activities, he said that Arif was involved in three IED blast incidents-Shahstri Nagar, Katra and January 21 incident of Narwal, Jammu. He said that he was equally in the three different bomb blast cases.
He said, “So far we had seen IED with explosive materials, sticky bombs and timer fitted IEDs but a new type of IED was recovered from Arif which is Perfume IED. This IED is in a bottle form and seems like a perfume bottle but contains explosive material.” DGP added, “Since the IED is new to us, experts will see how harmful and how powerful it can be. We have not touched it so far.”
He said that the main aim of these IEDs is to target innocent people and to trigger communal hatred in the Jammu region. “Arif will not only lose his job but a strong dossier will be prepared against him. He was a very clever operative. He had burnt all the evidence be that his clothes, shoes and that he even set ablaze his mobile phone as well. But police worked hard on even small inputs and leads that led to the arrest of Arif,” he briefed.
The DGP said that IED’s received by Arif were air-dropped through drones. “He has confessed to the crime,” he said. To a query about Danghri, Rajouri incident and the fate of probe, the DGP said that the investigations are in the advance stage and the output will be shared with the media men shortly.
Asked about further links of Arif and possible Kashmir connection, the DGP said that so far it has not been seen that Kashmiri youth are coming to Jammu for militancy or for that matter Jammu youth going to Kashmir. “Further investigations are on,” he said-(KNO
