BJP leader, his wife shot dead in Kashmir’s Anantnag
Militants on Monday shot dead Ghulam Rasool Dar, a sarpanch from Kulgam district affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and his wife in the Lal Chowk area in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, reports said.
The couple was shifted to a hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. The police and security forces cordoned off the area to nab the attackers.
Meanwhile, the Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation along with the Rashtriya Rifles and state police, on Monday averted a major terrorist strike before Independence Day 2021 by seizing a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a hideout in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Two AK-47 rifles, four AK-47 magazines, one Chinese pistol, 10 pistol magazines, one Set I-Com, four Chinese grenades, four non-electric detonators, nine electric detonators, 15 fuze detonators of Chinese grenades with levers, 16 Cordex, 257 round AK-47 ammunition, 68 round 9 mm Chinese ammunition, 23 rounds 7.65 mm ammunition, two mobile phones (Nokia), 12 battery mobile chargers and two nine-volt batteries were seized in the operation.
