Terrorist arrested in Kupwara encounter remanded to NIA custody for 12 days

Terrorist arrested in Kupwara encounter, Bahadur Ali, was remanded to NIA custody for 12 days by a Special NIA court on Saturday.

On July 26, four militants had been killed and another apprehended by security forces during an encounter in Naugam sector near the LoC in Kupwara district of Kashmir.

An army official said that all the militants had been foreign nationals. Vital information was expected from the apprehended militant.

An army spokesman had told dna,“We have recovered three AK rifles, two pistols and other war- like stores from the militants,” he said.

The infiltrator caught on the LoC is the fifth Pakistani to be apprehended alive since the Udhampur terror attack in August last year.