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CHANDIGARH, Aug 30: The Punjab police, in a follow up operation, have recovered a huge cache of arms and high grade explosives from the fields of Chan Ladia village near Indo-Pak border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.
State police Chief P C Dogra, in a press communique here today, said a Ludhiana district police party, led by Inspector Dilbagh Singh and accompanied by DSP border J and K police S S Jamwal and his men recovered an olive green bag that contained about 13 kg of black RDX explosive, two German made .32 revolvers, five timer switches, detonators and five 9-volt batteries, in its search operation conducted yesterday.
According to Dogra, Dipty Nath alias Palla had disclosed that the consignment was successfully carried across the border by him and one of his associates from near the Paharpur post of BSF in the area of Rajgarh police station. Both the bags were concealed in the dense under growth near the nullah which flows at some distance from the zero line.
On the following night Dipty Nath went to the place but found only one bag, the communique added.
Dogra said the operation was carried in full public view in broad day light with the help of villagers and J and K officials. Dipty Nath, who accompanied them, pointed the spot where he had concealed the consignment and after that the villagers managed to fish out the bag. The arms and explosives were later displayed in the village school.
Dogra said that after the recovery from the area there was a need for fencing the highly porous border of the Rajgarh-Hire Nagar in Kathua district.
Dogra said with this haul, the total recovery of high grade explosive made by Ludhiana police during the past week was about 35 kg apart from weapons and equipment.
Ludhiana: Meanwhile, Superintendent of Police detective K S Sandhu giving details of the operation said that while, the Punjab police party, which had gone for the operation, was all praises for the help extended by J and K police and the residents of village Chan Laldin, they were sore over the humiliation meted out to them by the BSF personnel.
According to Dilbagh Singh, the BSF personnel headed by a DSP not only threatened to seize the material recovered jointly by the Punjab police and their counterparts in J and K police but kept them in illegal confinement for about two and a half hours.
