Search ops launched in 3 J&K districts; GOC IX Corps visits Kathua

JAMMU: Security forces launched cordon-and-search operations successful 3 J&K districts — Rajouri, Doda, and Poonch — pursuing inputs astir suspected violent movement, officials said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, GOC Rising Star Corps (also known arsenic IX Corps) Lt Gen Rajan Sharawat reviewed the operational preparedness of troops successful Machhedi assemblage successful Kathua district.Late Tuesday, forces began combing Khandli and its adjoining areas, adjacent Palma, successful Rajouri aft locals reported sighting 2 panic suspects moving done a rivulet (nallah) towards a adjacent forest, officials said. Similar hunt operations were launched successful respective villages successful Doda’s Marmat and Dandi Dhara, and Ari Sarooti successful Poonch, aft residents alerted officials astir suspicious movement.

Sources said Kathua’s Bani-Macchedi loop — which Lt Gen Sharawat visited Wednesday — has witnessed respective panic attacks and encounters successful the past 2 years. The portion lies connected the accepted infiltration way utilized by ultras connected their mode to the precocious reaches of Doda, Kishtwar, and Udhampur.On Tuesday, GOC White Knight Corps Lt Gen P K Mishra had visited guardant areas successful Akhnoor successful Jammu territory to reappraisal operational readiness on the Line of Control successful Jammu division.

The GOC interacted with troops deployed on the LoC and was briefed connected measures undertaken to fortify defences and heighten operational effectiveness.In a abstracted development, DIG (Udhampur-Reasi range) Sarah Rizvi reviewed information arrangements astatine the cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi and on the pilgrimage way up of Navratri, which begins Thursday. The DIG directed enhanced ft patrolling, deployment astatine precocious points, activation of colony defence guards, continuous country domination exercises and long-range patrols arsenic a portion of information exercises successful the area.