Kathua on high alert after 3 men hijack SUV, head towards border

THE THREE BEAT UP THE TAVERA DRIVER, TIED HIM UP AND ROBBED HIM OF VALUABLES BEFORE FLEEING WITH THE CAR

JAMMU:A high alert was sounded in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir after three people hijacked a Tavera car on the Jammu-Pathankot highway after hiring it from Jammu on pretext of going to Kathua.

A police officer said, “At Chadwal Morh on the JammuPathankot highway the three overpowered the Tavera driver, Kabir Hussain, tied him up and robbed him off his mobile and money, before fleeing away with the vehicle. The incident occurred at around 2 am on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.”

He added that a high alert was sounded immediately and a search operation was also launched to trace the vehicle.

Preliminary investigations suggested that the three men are from Rajouri as they were reportedly conversing in the local language. They were headed towards the border in Kathua. It is learnt that they were seen without any arms. The car was found abandoned in Phallian Mandal area of Jammu. However, the whereabout of the hijackers is yet unknown.

AK-47 STOLEN FROM COP’S HOUSE IN RAJOURI A high alert was sounded in the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday following theft of an AK-47 rifle and a magazine from the rented apartment of a policeman.

The policeman, Shahid Anwar, a personal security officer with munsiff Judge in Rajouri has been suspended.

“He had gone to Jammu with his wife and had kept the AK-47 and three magazines at his rented accommodation. The rifle with one AK magazine was stolen but two magazines were found intact in a box in his house. We are conducting searches to recover the weapons and magazine,” said a police officer on the condition of anonymity.

Earlier this month, a large cache of arms and ammunition, including 35 assorted rifles belonging to the police went missing from south Kashmir.