The Army displays arms recovered from the infiltrators killed in Uri Sector on Monday. PTI

Srinagar, June 12

The J&K Police on Monday claimed to have busted a Hizbul Mujahideen module by arresting two militants and two overground workers of the group.A police spokesman said two militants Mehrajudin and Obaid Shafi Malla, both residents of south Kashmir’s Awantipora sub-district, were arrested in Handwara in a joint operation.“On a specific information regarding movement of militants, a joint naka by the Handwara police and 21 Rashtriya Rifles was laid at Chogal, Handwara. Mehrajudin and Obaid Malla were caught while moving in suspicious circumstances. The duo was asked to stop but they started running away. The naka party immediately swung into action and caught them. On checking, a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from them. During the investigation, they revealed that they had come to Handwara for receiving ammunition and other war-like stores for their militant outfit in south Kashmir,” the spokesman said.“They were misusing web chats to hatch and execute terrorist conspiracies,” he said. The preliminary investigation, the police said, revealed that these militants not only recruited youth by radicalising them over social media but also coordinated their training and arranged arms and ammunition.On their disclosure, two more members of the module working as overground workers were arrested from Awantipora.“They were identified as Shahid Ahmad Thoker and Irfan Ahmad both from Awantipora,” he said. — TNS

2 CRPF men injured

• Srinagar: Two CRPF men were injured in a grenade attack in south Kashmir’s Tral sub-district. The grenade was lobbed by militants at 180 CRPF headquarters in Tral late this evening, a spokesman for the CRPF said. TNS

Search ops continue in Uri

• The massive combing and search operation along the Line of Control in the Uri sector continued on Monday for the fourth consecutive day. The Army suspects two more militants are hiding in the dense forest area. TNS