2 youths arrested in Srinagar, 400 rounds of AK-47 rifle recovered

Srinagar, Oct 23: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday claimed to have arrested two youths and recovered 400 rounds of AK-47 rifle in Srinagar. A police official said that following specific inputs, a checkpoint was established at Bemina bypass. He said the youths moving suspiciously were intercepted at the check point and during their frisking 400 live rounds of AK-47 rifle were recovered. The youths, identified as Tanveer Ahmad Raja and Shakoor Ahmad, residents of Kernah in frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara, were immediately taken into custody, he said. A case has been registered and investigations initiated to ascertain from where the ammunition was procured by the youths. “We are also investigation where they had to deliver the ammunition,” he said. Two militants were early this month arrested alongwith live rounds of ammunition in south Kashmir. UNI