Spyglass seized in J&K: 6-year old boy finds ‘toy’ in garbage; turns out to be ‘Chinese-made’ telescope | India News
NEW DELHI: Police on Sunday recovered a “Chinese-made” weapon-mountable telescope from the Sidhra area in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.“Jammu (Rural) Police today recovered a telescope (that can be mounted on a weapon) from the Sidhra area,” a police spokesperson said, while urging people “not to panic” .According to the police, the device was found in the possession of a six-year-old boy from the Asrarabad locality of Sidhra. During the inquiry, the child’s family told police that he had picked up the object from a nearby garbage dump earlier on Sunday.Teams from the police and the Special Operations Group (SOG) are conducting a detailed investigation to determine how the device reached the area, the spokesperson said. Police apprehended a 24-year-old man in J&K’s Samba district for questioning, news agency PTI reported.
Separate incidents in J&K
In a another development, a man named Tanvir Ahmad was taken into custody from village Diani in Samba district after a “Pakistani” phone number was reportedly found on his mobile phone, officials said. Ahmad is a resident of Anantnag in south Kashmir and is currently living in Samba, according to officials.In another separate incident on Sunday, security forces launched a search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district after terrorists allegedly took food from a house in a village before fleeing into a nearby forest.Police and paramilitary personnel rushed to the area soon after, but the terrorists had already escaped by the time the forces arrived. Following the incident, the forest belt surrounding the village was cordoned off and search operations intensified.The operation comes days after a deadly encounter in the same region on December 15, where a policeman was killed in a gunfight with terrorists at Soan village in the Majalta area after security forces received information about the movement of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists. The terrorists managed to escape, taking advantage of thick foliage and darkness, PTI reported.
