The CISF personnel attacked were from 3rd Reserve Battalion in Bhilai. “They were deployed for outer cordon security during a joint search operation by CRPF jawans and police. After they were intercepted, the terrorists lobbed grenades. Major loss of life of security forces could have happened if the terrorists had surpassed the outer cordon,” CISF said in a statement later. As many as 13 companies of CISF are deployed in J&K on law and order duty.
Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh said that a team of police, Army, CRPF and CISF launched a search operation in the Sunjwan area after receiving a tipoff regarding the presence of infiltrators near the Army camp. The two killed may have been heading towards the Army camp, which was attacked in 2018. As a precautionary measure, the administration snapped mobile internet services and schools were closed in the vicinity before the search.
Police later seized three weapons including two AK rifles, several grenades, Pakistan manufactured energy drinks and medicines from the encounter site. Seized items indicated that the militants were planning a suicide attack. Singh said that the killed, on instruction from across the border, came on a mission to disturb peace in Jammu, to prevent Modi’s visit.
“It looks like they had infiltrated recently with a mission to launch an attack close to the date of the visit of the prime minister. They were wearing vests and had come on a suicide mission on security installations,” Singh said. The nefarious designs of the infiltrators were successfully foiled, he said. “It would have impacted the visit of the PM had they been successful in reaching any security installation. Our people are prepared and committed to defeat such nefarious designs,” he said.
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