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Udhampur Police works out Twin Blasts in Udhampur:
Two blasts had taken place in parked buses, one at Baigra Petrol pump near Domail Chowk and other at old bus stand Udhampur.
On 28.09.2022, at around 10:30 PM an IED blast took place inside a bus bearing registration No.JK14D 6857 ( which plies on Basantgarh to Udhampur via Ramnagar route) parked at a petrol pump near Domail Chowk in Udhampur, resulting which two persons-Vijay Kumar S/O Om Prakash R/O Jaganoo Udhampur and Sunil Singh S/O Jattu Ram R/O Pingla Ramnagar got injured and the bus along with few other parked vehicles got damaged. In this regard case FIR number 405/2022 U/S 307, 121, 122 IPC, 16/18/20/23 ULAP and 3/4 Explosive Substances Act was registered.
On 29.09.2022 around 5:30 AM, similar kind of explosion took place in another bus bearing registration No. JK 14C 3636 (plying on route from Ramnagar to Udhampur and vice versa) which was parked in old Bus stand Udhampur,causing damage to the said bus along with few other parked vehicles in the vicinity. Case FIR number 406/2022 U/S 307,121,122 IPC, 16/18/20/23 ULAP Act and 3/4 Explosive Substances Act was registered in police station Udhampur and investigations were taken up by Shri Sahil Mahajan DySP Hqrs and Shri Anwar Ul Haq Addl SP Udhampur respectively.
During the course of investigation some suspects of the area were rounded up and put to sustained questioning to get any clue regarding the blast. One suspect Mohd Aslam Sheikh S/O Mohd Shafi R/O Kadwa Basantgarh confessed that he had placed the IEDs in both the buses at Bus stand Ramnagar,on 28.09.2022 at around 3 PM on the direction of his Pakistani handler Mohammed Amin Bhat @Khubaib S/O Dawood Bhat, R/O Kathawa, Doda(at present in Pakistan)
Suspect Mohammed Aslam was in contact with Pakistan based handler from quite some time. He was motivated by the handler to receive some consignment from near international border (Samba Kathua axis) who also promised him some monetary benefits. On 23.09.2022, as per the direction of handler, Suspect received a consignment from Dayala Chak area and took it to his home on 24.09.2022. Further, he kept the the said consignment at his home. On 28.09.2022 again on the direction of handler Khubaib, suspect took two IEDs to Ramnagar bus stand, activated and kept one each in the side cabin of Udhampur bound buses, and returned back.
On the disclosure of suspect, some recoveries have also been made from his home, which include; 02 No. of IEDs
03 number of sticky IEDs
05 numbers of detonators, 02 No. of. Timer devices(PTD) and 04 number of dry batteries. Accused has been arrested in case FIR number 405/2022 of police station Udhampur and further investigation is going on.
Pertinently accused Mohammed Aslam Sheikh is a surrendered militant of HM outfit and is also involved in, case FIR number 16/2005 U/S 302, 307,121A,121B RPC/7/25 Arms Act and FIR number 17/2005 U/S 307,121A,121B RPC7/27 Arms Act of PS Malhar Kathua.
HandlerTerrorist Mohd Amin Bhat @ Khubaib was also the mastermind of sticky bomb blast which took place on 09.03.2022 at Slathia Chowk, Udhampur in which one person lost his life while other 13 got injured in said blast.