Baramulla 31Aug; Police on Tuesday arrested four Overground Workers of LeT militant for a grenade attack on the house of a Sarpanch at Shrakwara Kreeri ten days ago. In a statement to , a police officer told that on August 22, about 2100 hours, a telephonic call was received by Police Station Kreeri regarding blast-like sound from village Shrakwara Kreeri.Accordingly, the Police party of Police Station Kreeri, SOG Kreeri, 176 Bn CRPF & 52 RR rushed towards the said village.During the course of verification, it came to fore that a grenade was lobbed towards the police guard and house of one sarpanch namely Narinder Kour W/O Daljeet Singh resident of Shrakwara Kreeri which caused some minor damages to window panes and vehicle Maruti-800 as the lever of exploded grenade was found in the kitchen garden.Accordingly a case FIR under sections of explosive substances act and UA (P) Act 1967 was registered in Police Station Kreeri and investigation set into motion.During process of investigation, many suspects were called for questioning and on the basis of technical analysis/ CCTV footage and other evidences, it came to surface that suspects namely Mohd Saleem Khan S/O Ghulam Hassan Khan resident of new colony Shrakwara and Sajad Ahmed Mir S/O Late Ali Mohd Mir resident of Mir Mohalla Saloosa are involved in the commission of crime who were later arrested.During the interrogation of both suspects, it came to fore that both the suspects are working as OGWs of LeT outfit and are working under the behest of one Pakistan based handler of LeT and its offshoot TRF namely Ali Bhai.It is pertinent to mention here that both the accused persons are drug addicts and were in contact with LeT terrorist Hilal Sheikh and Usman (FT) on whose instructions, they obtained a grenade from Batmaloo Srinagar. Two other associates Bilal Ahmad Sheikh S/O Mohd Maqbool Sheikh R/O Saloosa and Naseer Ahmad Dar S/O Ab Majeed Dar R/O Najibhat assisted the accused persons in the commission of crime who were also arrested.Two hand grenades and 100 grams of Charas like substance have been recovered from the accused persons.Further investigation and links to other cases are under investigation.(
