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Srinagar, May 18: Jammu and Kashmir police has launched a massive hunt to trace three weapons which were found missing from a police post in Dalgate area of the summer capital, Srinagar, official source said on Friday.
They said panic gripped a hotel when police guards posted there found three weapons missing late last night from the post.
Senior police officers were immediately informed and a massive hunt was launched to trace the weapon.
Giving details sources said that police guards were posted to guard a hotel, where some protected people are staying at Buchwara Dalgate on the bank of Dal Lake. However, the police guards had gone to offer prayers in a mosque, On their return, they found three weapons missing.
A case has been registered and investigation taken up, they said adding police guards are also being questioned. UNI


Srinagar, Apr 26: Militants attacked policemen guarding a temple and decamped with four automatic weapons in central Kashmir district of Badgam, where a constable went missing along with his service weapon on Tuesday night.
A police spokesman said here Thursday morning that a group of militants attacked a guard post of 13 Batallion Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police (JKAP) at Goripora Hyderpora in Badgam district. Militants decamped with four weapons of police guard, he said. No damage was caused to temple, they said, adding it was not immediately know if there was any resistance from the police guards.
Police has registered a case, they said adding that security forces have been rushed and entire area has been cordoned off. Security forces have also established nakas in nearby areas to nab the militants responsible for the attack.
Official sources said militants decamped with two Self Loading Rifles (SLR), one INSAS and one carbine. This was first such incident in the district this year. However, in February this year, militants killed a police constable of 13 batallion JKAP Kultar Singh posted at Charar-e-Sharief and looted his rifle.
About a dozen rifles were looted in similar attacks in south Kashmir last year.
However, police arrested three youths who were tasked to kill a policeman and loot his weapon in south Kashmir, where a political activist was killed by gunmen yesterday afternoon. One pistol was recovered from the arrested youths.
On Tuesday night a police constable Tariq Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Shopian, went missing from Pakherpora in Badgam where he was posted. UNI